Beans: A History

by Ken Albala

Book Overview

This is the story of the bean, the staple food cultivated by humans for over 10,000 years.

From the lentil to the soybean, every civilization on the planet has cultivated its own species of bean. The humble bean has always attracted attention - from Pythagoras' notion that the bean hosted a human soul to St. Jerome's indictment against bean-eating in convents (because they "tickle the genitals"), to current research into the deadly toxins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350022276
• ISBN13: 9781350022270
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"