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Garlic And Other Alliums
Eric Block
The Lore And The Science
Royal Society of Chemistry
November 2009
On Sale: November 5, 2009
474 pages
ISBN: 0854041907
EAN: 9780854041909
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
This unique book, with a foreword by 1990 Nobel Laureate
E.J. Corey, outlines the extensive history and the
fascinating past and present uses of these plants, sorting
out fact from fiction based upon detailed scrutiny of
historic documents as well as numerous laboratories studies.
Readers will be entertained and educated as they learn about
early cultivation of garlic and other alliums while being
introduced to the chemistry and biochemistry. They will
learn how alliums have been portrayed and used in
literature, poetry, the arts and how alliums are featured in
the world's oldest cookbook. Technical material is presented
in a manner understandable to a general audience,
particularly through the use of illustrations to simplify
more difficult concepts and explain how experimental work is
conducted. The book is heavily illustrated with examples of alliums in
art, literature, agriculture, medicine and other areas and
includes rare botanical drawings of many members of the
genus Allium.
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