The Vegetable Book
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Zucchini? Or courgette? Sweet corn? Or maize? Runner bean? Or stick bean? Our kitchen gardens are complicated by linguistic confusion. I resolve them through the pages of the old, yet highly respected The Vegetable Book – An Unnatural History. For example: "Vegetable marrows, brought to England [from the Americas] about 1700...are known as Italian small marrows, or zucchini, or courgettes (little marrows)." This little gem was written by Buddhist Yann Lovelock way back in the 1970s. It remains a revealing read.
From Bill's list on backyard veg.
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