A Holiday Book in Review: 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From

100 Vegetables and Where They Came From By: William Woys Weaver
Non-fiction: gardening, history, food 289 pages
Book Count: 68

First, yes I know that this book has nothing to do with any October holidays (unless you are Canadian), but as Thanksgiving is one of the holidays of the Super Holiday Special, and most people do not read as much as me I thought I would put some books on the list early.
About the book, this is much like the title suggests a book on 100 different variates of vegetables and their history. It also includes ways to cook them, other uses for them and a list in the back of where you can get them in case you want to grow your own. A number of the websites on that list have changed, but most of them are still running and at the stated address and if you are interested in growing these types of veggies the links that do work are worth looking at the book alone. It deals mainly with heirloom and rare vegetables. There are a number of tomatoes, peppers, greens, peas,and beans in the book. The author has grown all of these plants and a couple of them are ones that he himself had created. Each veggie has a drawing of it; however, it is only a black and white line drawing which I find odd as many of the veggies have unusual coloring and for a couple color/non-color drawings of them in older books made the difference in finding them in modern times. Overall if you like growing classic foods this is a good book for you.