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THE SEED DETECTIVE

Author: Adam Alexander

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306 pages

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Meet the Indiana Jones of vegetables and join him on his quest to save our heritage produce.

Did you ever wonder how peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash, and corn have ended up on our plates? Well, so did Adam Alexander.

Adam Alexander is The Seed Detective. His passion for vegetables was ignited when he tasted an unusual sweet pepper with a fiery heart while on a filmmaking project in Ukraine. Smitten by its flavor, Adam began to seek out local growers of endangered heritage and heirloom varieties in a mission to bring home seeds to grow, share, and return so that he could enjoy their delicious taste―and save them from being lost forever.

In The Seed Detective, Adam shares his own stories of seed hunting with the origin stories behind many of our everyday food heroes. Taking us on a journey that began when we left the hunter-gatherer's life to become farmers, he tells tales of globalization, political intrigue, colonization, and serendipity―describing how these vegetables and their travels have become embedded in our food cultures.

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