How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (But True) Stories of Common Vegetables by Rebecca Rupp

How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (But True) Stories of Common Vegetables

Rebecca Rupp

376 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative lighthearted medium-paced
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Discover why Roman gladiators were massaged with onion juice before battle, how celery contributed to Casanova's conquests, how peas almost poisoned General Washington, and why some seventeenth-century turnips were considered degenerate. Rebecca R...

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