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Also by Eric Block:

Garlic And Other Alliums, November 2009
Hardcover

GARLIC AND OTHER ALLIUMS
By: 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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