RFI: that good book about history of rice, and flower with black center?

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This is kind of random, but Google and Amazon were not much help.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 1 November 2004 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Is the flower in the book too, or not? one striking flower with a black centre is black-eyed-susan. There are also many pansy, poppy and tulip types like this. And doubtless others i can't think of now.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Long before this ridiculous 'histories of seemingly-mundane-but-actually-quite-fascinating-when-you-look-into-it-and-understand-the-impact-they-have-had-on-our-world THINGS' publishing trend got out of hand, there was a very good little book called Seeds Of Change: Five Plants That Ttransformed Mankind
, by Henry Hobhouse. The plants in question were sugar, tea, cotton, the potato and quinine.

That doesn't answer your question though.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought of that book when I saw this thread title.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

For some reason I never realised that quinine was a plant.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:57 (nineteen years ago) link

However, I'm not sure what I did think it was.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:00 (nineteen years ago) link

But then, I know someone (very smart actually) who mistakenly thought a sturgeon was a name for a type of bird, like for decades.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Ally thought pastrami was an animal that looked like a Pikachu.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently quinine is an invasive weed in some pacific islands.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:24 (nineteen years ago) link

is it a cookbook? there's an excellent cookbook called the seductions of rice that's got loads of historical info in it.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link

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