Homage to Rhubarb
David Allen, 8 October 1992
Rhubarb: The Wondrous Drug
by Clifford Foust.
Princeton, 317 pp., £27.50, April 1992,0 691 08747 4 Show More
by Clifford Foust.
Princeton, 317 pp., £27.50, April 1992,
“... involved careers of the more familiar fruits and vegetables. For long, Redcliffe Salaman held this field alone, with his justly-renowned History and Social Influence of the Potato. Smaller-scale and little-known by comparison, but in its unambitious way hardly less fascinating, is N.W. Simmonds’s monograph on bananas, with its thought-provoking ... ”