75 Exciting Vegetables for Your GardenGibbs Smith, 2009 Seventy-five eminently beautiful fruits and vegetables are profiled in this charming new book by expert gardener and garden designer Jack Staub. Discover produce you'll likely not see in the local supermarket, including the Asparagus Bean, Green Zebra Tomato, Prescott Fond Blanc Melon, Purple Sprouting Broccoli, True Lemon Cucumber, Turkish Orange Eggplant, and many more. Staub seeks not only to infuse America's backyard gardens with color and variety, but to enlighten and amuse with amiable text, surprising history, scraps of unexpected lore, and tidbits of culinary insight. Unique in content and tone, 75 Extraordinary Vegetables shares the history, evolution, and details about each vegetable, and then provides simple solutions for using them in the kitchen every day. Be they heirloom or hybrid, native or transplant, Staub presents seventy-five really superb vegetables in current culture that are as exciting for their physical beauty as they are for their taste. |
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Broccoli Romanesco | 26 |
Brussels Sprout Rubine | 29 |
dAlgers Melon | 68 |
Dragon Tongue Bush Bean | 72 |
Dwarf Blue Curled Scotch Kale | 74 |
Early Purple Vienna Kohlrabi | 77 |
Eggplant Neon | 80 |
Egyptian Walking Onion | 84 |
Elberta Peach Tomato | 86 |
Fish Pepper | 89 |
Bulls Blood Beet | 32 |
Cabbage Ruby Perfection | 35 |
Cabbage Savoy Express | 38 |
Cardoon Gigante | 42 |
Carrot Thumbelina | 44 |
Cauliflower Violetta di Sicilia | 47 |
Cayenne Pepper | 50 |
Celeriac | 54 |
Chard Bright Lights | 56 |
Chinese Rat Tail Radish | 59 |
Chiogga Beet | 62 |
Crimson Forest Onion | 65 |
German Red Strawberry Tomato | 92 |
Giant Chinese Red Mustard | 95 |
Giant Red Celery | 98 |
Golden Sweet EdiblePodded Pea | 102 |
Green Zebra Tomato | 104 |
Habañero Pepper | 107 |
Hillbilly Tomato | 110 |
Imperial Star Artichoke | 114 |
Jarrahdale Pumpkin | 116 |
Kale Nero di Toscana | 119 |
Leek Blue Solaise | 122 |
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