Common and Forgotten Vegetables

• Garden book and cultural history, with 50 colour illustrations
• 50 garden greens – more than just vitamin sources
• Botany, alternative medicine and recipes

The vegetables we eat every day are far more than just sources of vitamins. They harbour secrets, fanciful tales and magic. Some of them are powerful healing plants with clinically proven medical effects. Wolf-Dieter Storl, the great connoisseur and researcher of healing and crop plants, offers an exciting and easy to read presentation of 50 garden greens, including some rare and forgotten types of vegetables and salad. The book is an unparalleled combination of gardening, ethnobotany, cultural history as well as ancient and new medical discoveries. And to render all of this palatable, there is a simple recipe for each presented plant. As a novelty, Barbara Hanneder’s subtle and artistic colour illustrations gracefully complement the book.