The Genealogy of Plant Foods

• Offers entries of 106 plant foods, including their origins, histories, and religious significance as well as culinary and medicinal uses • Covers an extensive range of fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses, nuts and seeds, herbs and spices as well as “specialty” foods like chocolate, pasta, sugar, coffee, and tea • Provides nutritional and healing properties, based on the latest scientific findings on nutriceuticals and phytochemicals, to present each food as a medicine The last major study of pl