Food Plants of China

The food plants of an area provide the material basis for the survival of its population, and furthermore furnish inspiring stimuli for cultural development. This book contains two major parts. Part I introduces the cultural aspects of Chinese food plant and the spread Chinese culinary culture to the outside world. It also describes how the botanical and cultural information was acquired, which plants have been selected by the Chinese people for food, how these foodstuffs are produced, preserved, and prepared, and what lessons the people of developed countries can learn from Chinese practices. Part II provides the botanical identification of the plant kingdom for the esculents used in China as food and/or for beverage. The plants are illustrated with line drawings or composite photographs. more

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Posted: Sep-22-2005

Great new reference work

If the average fine book gets five stars, this should get at least 50. Many of us have been waiting for decades, with little hope, for a real ethnobotany of China. This book fulfills our dreams, at least as far as food plants go--and Dr. Hu has already done a book on medical plants. The present...

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