Forgotten Fruits: The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables

ISBN-13: 9780099514749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str.

Christopher Stocks

Opis

'Forgotten Fruits' is more than a guide to some of Britain's unusual varieties of fruit and vegetables. It's also a work of natural and social history, showing how rural life in the UK has evolved over the centuries.

Recenzje

A great source of inspiration Simon Tiffin Telegraph

O autorze

Christopher Stocks is a writer and journalist who has worked for, among others, Harpers & Queen, ES Magazine, Arena and Wallpaper, reporting on everything from Uruguayan beach resorts to an underground submarine base off the coast of Sweden. More recently he wrote a weekly gardening column for the Independent On Sunday, and he is a regular contributor to Gardens Illustrated. He collects unusual perfumes and old Shell Guides, won a 2007 Bridport Prize for his poetry, and shares a birthday with Donny Osmond and Hermione Gingold. Forgotten Fruits is his first book.