Interesting essays on allotments, market gardening in the Paris region, early-modern vegetable gardening in England and Indian markets.

Julia Abramson - (Don't) Eat Your Veggies: A Historical Semiotics of Carving Legumes. Lesley Acton - The War of Vegetables: The Rise & Fall of the English Allotment Movement. Ken Albala - The First Scientific Defense of a Vegetarian Diet. Elizabeth Andoh - Mukimono & Modoki: Japan's Culinary Trompe l'A il. Joan P. Alcock - The Roman Vegetable Garden. Anthony Buccini - The Bitter - and Flatulent - Aphrodisiac: Synchrony and Diachrony of the Culinary Use of Muscari Comosum in Greece and Italy. Jeremy Cherfas - Eat Your Greens: Traditional Leafy Vegetables for Better Nutrition. Andrew Dalby - 'We Talked About the Aubergines:' Some Minor Pleasures of European Diplomacy. Joel Denker - The Carrot Purple. Len Fisher - Listening to Vegetables. Anna Marie Fisker - Vegetables as Symbol in Design and Art. Anissa Helou - Akkoub (Gundelia Tournefortii - Tournefort's gundelia): An Edible Wild Thistle from the Lebanese Mountains. Phillip Iddison - Allotment Diaries. Cathy Kaufman - Is There Salvation in Sweetness? Sugar Beets in America. Jane Levi - Up on the Farm: The Role of Vegetables in Conquering Space. Mairtin Mac Con Iomaire & Padraic A"g Gallagher - The Potato in Irish Cuisine and Culture. Ray McVinnie - Sweet As! Notes on the Kumara or New Zealand Sweet Potato as a Taonga, or Treasure. Mark McWilliams - The American Pumpkin. Michael & Joy Michaud - Wild Thing: The Naga Morich Story. Salvatore Musumeci - 'Per rape et porri et per spinachi': Re-examining the Realities of Vegetable Consumption at the Monastery of Santa Trinita in Post-Plague Florence. Lizbeth Nicol - Les Maraichers - Market Gardeners of the A le de France. Krina Patel - Keeping the Home Fires Burning: Culinary Exchanges, Sustainability and Traditional Vegetable Markets in India. Charles Perry - The Los Angeles Vegetable Cult. Gillian Riley - From the Plate to the Palate: Visual Delights from the Vegetable Kingdoms of Italy. William Rubel - But Did the English Eat Their Vegetables? A Look at English Kitchen Gardens and the Vegetable Cookery They Imply, 1650-1800. June di Schino - Renaissance Italy and the Fabulous, Flamboyant 'Inslata.' Aylin A-ney Tan - Bone-Dry Freshness: Dried Vegetables. Michelle Toratani - Daikon: The Root of Japan. Karin Vaneker - Pomtajer. Susan Weingarten - A Vegetable Zodiac from Late Antique Alexandria.