We do not know of any parallel in European, Arabic or Indian medieval civilisation . " The first similar work in a European language was Charles Bryant's ( 1783 ) " Flora Diaetetica, or History of Esculent Plants, both Domestic and Foreign ".
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Though it is often asserted that rhubarb first came to the United States in the 1820s, John Bartram was growing medicinal and culinary rhubarbs in Philadelphia from the 1730s, planting seeds sent him by R . undulatum " at Monticello in 1809 and 1811, observing that it was " Esculent rhubarb, the leaves excellent as Spinach ."
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Reader s explanation of what happened during the great Potato Famine of 1845 to 1850 discusses the biosocial and biopolitical processes of the period . " The Propitious Esculent " proposes that the fate of Ireland was not solely the fault of a fungus but the result of a chain of governmental decisions that were set into motion because of the properties of the potato.
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We found these negroes in possession of large fields of the finest land, producing large crops of corn, beans, melons, pumpkins, and other esculent vegetables . . . . I saw, while riding along the borders of the ponds, fine rice growing; and in the village large corn-cribs were filled, while the houses were larger and more comfortable than those of the Indians themselves.
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In some particulars, McMahon followed his English models so closely that J . C . Loudon suggested in 1826 that the derivative character of the " Calendar " was such that " We cannot gather from the work any thing as to the extent of American practice in these particulars . " Ann Leighton notes the absence of Indian corn among the " Seeds of Esculent Vegetables " in 1806, though he lists old-fashioned favorites like coriander, corn-salad, orach, rampion, rocambole and skirret.
