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Another #recommendation from @ReadingEnvy . #botanist #food

The tagged book has been on my shelf for a while - maybe a good time to eat around the globe with just my eyes and the words on the page.

Some more good food recommendations here :- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/lists/books-that-take-you-on-a-culinar...

I enjoyed this one. Daniel Stone's writing flowed smoothly, and it was an interesting history of Fairchild's exploration of food and travels.

"Never be satisfied with what you know, only with what more you can find out."

I picked up this beauty at a used bookstore today. I'm having to force myself to carry on with my current library books because I want to drop everything and read this instead.

I enjoyed this, but not as much as I had hoped to. It was very dry, and I didn't find their lives very interesting. It was very interesting to learn about how foods that initially grew in other countries ended up moving around the world. It is fascinating to think that governments used to pay for explorers to bring back new food! It's also interesting that so many of our foods got here thanks to the same group of people.

I thought this book very informative. There were topics that I probably would have omitted but for whatever reason, the author included. I did not know that avocados were once called alligator pears or where they originated from. Really interesting book

Took a little time for some breakfast 🥑🍞☕️& reading a bit of my current virtual foodie book club selection at my happy place before running errands. The morning is a bit windy which helps with the humidity. A nice treat was the owner bringing me over two small mangoes from her tree at home that she says are “the best.” Friends sharing mangoes 🥭 is a very good thing. 🤗Happy Saturday! 🌺

Happy Aloha Friday! 🌺
My baker friend sent me a box of goodies yesterday 😋🤗including this blueberry coffee cake so I brought it to work for breakfast. Enjoying my slice with a current read for my virtual foodie bookclub. I am hosting this bimonthly selection so I am trying to actually read it before the 9/30 deadline. 😉Hope you are all having a good day.

The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone is the next pick for my local bookclub and even though I had to fight the eBook hold lists at the library, I was able to get to it before we meet. It is a fascinating tale of many of the foods grown and consumed in America today, all because of this one man who ventured out and collected seeds and cuttings from around the world. My unfortunate husband got to hear a lot of tiny bits that I found fascinating.

I LOVED this book. David Fairchild traveled the world, married one of Alexander Graham Bell‘s daughters, helped to create the U.S. Department of Agriculture, introduced many of the foods that you eat today, and is responsible for the the cherry blossom trees in Washington D.C.! I mean— what a life and thanks for the avocados!
Etta is getting real fed up with life in front of the camera, but approves this book.

Commence reading date!

This was interesting. The true story of a botanist traveling the world at the turn of the century bringing back all kinds of plants, foods and trees to the US in order to bolster US agriculture. If you like food and history this is your book. Well written with lots of pretty cool facts. Read like a novel for me. 🍇🍎🍏🍐🍓

I could not put this book down. What a collection of influential lives that brought us our avocados, kale, lemons, asparagus...the list goes on. So well written and beautifully researched - I will never look at the food on my plate the same again.

Never be satisfied with what you know, only with what more you can find out.

Stopped at Politics and Prose to pick up Daniel Stone‘s book (he‘s a friend of my daughter). Looking for award to reading it!

This was fun! I got lost in the details at times, but really enjoyed following David Fairchild‘s life. He was unique, took risks, and found an uber-rich backer for his work in botany. What more could you ask for in a tale of adventure? #netgalley #bookreview

Very good!

Great story of how so many of America‘s plant foods were brought here in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, and how that affected int‘l relations and American policy...that all sounds kind of boring, but it was actually really fun! 😜 Since it‘s a biography, it‘s not a comprehensive food history of the era (The Cooking Gene, which I also loved, fills in some of those gaps), though it does touch on colonialism, racism, and other social factors.

Spotted at B&N; added to my #TBR !