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Forgotten Fruits
A Guide to Britain's Traditional Fruit and Vegetables
- Authors: Christopher Stocks
- Category: Non-fiction Diet / Cooking
- Publisher: Random House Books
- Pub date: 1 May 2008
- Length: 224 pages
About Forgotten Fruits
My favourite book of the year. Written with passion and real knowledge of his subject… you will be inspired
- Monty Don, DAILY MAIL
Scholarly and fascinating… Conjures a lost world from the humble gooseberry, leek and apple
Jane Shilling, THE TIMES
Fantastic, meticulously researched, wonderful descriptions, lots of anecdotes, lots of practical advice. A serious work and fascinating read… Hugely important
Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time
In FORGOTTEN FRUITS, Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - and often rather bizarre - stories behind Britain’s rich heritage of fruit and vegetables. Take Newton Wonder apples, for instance, first discovered around 1870 allegedly growing in the thatch of a Derbyshire pub. Or the humble gooseberry which, among other things, helped Charles Darwin to arrive at his theory of evolution. Not to mention the ubiquitous tomato, introduced to Britain from South America in the sixteenth century but regarded as highly poisonous for hearly 200 years.
This is a wonderful piece of social and natural history that will appeal to every gardener and food aficionado.