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by Amy Goldman (Author), Victor Schrager (Photographer)
Melons are the vegetable garden's crown jewels--and Amy Goldman's lifelong passion and calling. Her new book, THE MELON, will entice and educate, whether you are a passionate gardener, a locavore, or simply delight in the inherent beauty and evanescence of the fruits of the vine.
THE MELON was produced by Amy Goldman in collaboration with celebrated photographer Victor Schrager over the course of nine years. It's a cut above their award-winning melon book MELONS FOR THE PASSIONATE GROWER, published in 2002. In the intervening years, Goldman has grown as a gardener and has learned a lot more. She has taken advantage of recent research findings that informed her thinking on crop history and best cultural practices. THE MELON includes additional horticultural groups of melon and gives watermelon--which is less genetically diverse--more of a fair shake. Much like the word "cantaloupe," which is used colloquially and erroneously by Americans to describe muskmelon, the word "melon" is commonly used in the United States to refer to both melon and watermelon. These vining crops belong to two different species within the Cucurbitaceae or gourd family of plants. Melon and watermelon are now among the world's most important vegetable crops. The 125 varieties illustrated and described in THE MELON comprise 85 melons and 40 watermelons from all over the globe. Their stories are as diverse as the melons themselves. In addition to the stunning portraits and beauty shots and detailed descriptions of melons, THE MELON includes in-depth sections on picking and choosing melons and watermelons in the market, growing them in the garden, and saving pure heirloom seeds. Mouth-watering recipes by renowned cookbook author Mindy Fox complete the journey from seed to table.
Author Biography
AMY GOLDMAN
Amy Goldman is a gardener, author, artist, and well-known advocate for seed saving, plant breeding, and heirloom fruits and vegetables. Her mission is to celebrate and catalogue the magnificent diversity of standard, open-pollinated varieties, and to promote their conservation. Goldman is described as "perhaps the world's premier vegetable gardener" by Gregory Long, President Emeritus of the New York Botanical Garden. She has authored four books, including three that have earned the American Horticultural Society Book of the Year award: Melons for the Passionate Grower (2002), The Compleat Squash: A Passionate Grower's Guide to Pumpkins, Squashes, and Gourds (2004), and The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table (2008). Most recently she wrote Heirloom Harvest: Modern Daguerreotypes of Historic Garden Treasures (2015), which was illustrated by Jerry Spagnoli. Melons are Goldman's lifelong love and calling. This new book, The Melon, illustrated by Victor Schrager and many years in the making, is a comprehensive and definitive work that includes portraits in words and photographs of 125 extraordinary varieties, expert advice on cultivation and seed saving, and a generous selection of delicious melon recipes. VICTOR SCHRAGER For more than 30 years Victor Schrager has been a master of still-life photography. Born in Maryland, Schrager grew up in New York City. He earned a BA at Harvard in 1972 and an MFA at Florida State University in 1975. Schrager's photographs explore how different modes of information, especially visual, literary, historical, and scientific, function to produce and communicate knowledge. The works for which he is best known are still lifes composed of layered images and texts--among them reproductions of paintings, maps, magazine pictures, pages from books, and photographic prints--in an investigation of how context structures the meaning of all representations. His work has been exhibited at galleries and museums around the world and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among many others. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Schrager has been the principal photographer for three of Amy Goldman's previous three books on vegetables and fruits. He lives in upstate New York.- ✔ Authenticity Guaranteed — Verified Designer Goods
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