COLOPHON: "I gratefully raise a glass of beet juice to the following sources: Rebecca Rupp's How Carrots Won the Trojan War, rareseeds.com, Mrs. Grieve's A Modern Herbal, Pliny the Elder's Natural History, and Nicholas Culpeper's Complete Herbal. The text was digitally set in Italian Electric by me and letterpress printed from polymer plates by Sarah Vogel (to whom I raise twoglasses of beet juice) at the Evanston Print & Paper Shop. The paper stock is commercial cover in varying weights from various manufacturers...Visit me at shawnsheehy.com"
Shawn Sheehy conceived, engineered, and designed this herbal...Each vegetable is accompanied by supporting text in a 2-page booklet (2.5 x 2.5") to the page...Bound in chipboard and paper covers.
Pages attached to a concertina structure and bound in heavy board covers.
"This culinary herbal puts ancient medicinal theory into modern practice. Using pre-scientific logic, it links vegetables and their curative properties with 21st-century ills--both societal and individual. Though the cures are fictions, some parts of each listing are true: each of the 12 cultivars is an authentic heirloom, the listing of constituents is accurate, and the nutritional value of each vegetable is verified by modern science."--Introduction
Table of contents: Introduction -- Old World vegetables : Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) ; Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis) ; Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum) ; Beetroot (Beta vulgaris) ; chard (Beta vulgaris sub. cicla) ; Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis) ; Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) -- New World vegetables: Maize (Zea mays) ; Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) ; Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) ; Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) ; Potato (Solanum tuberosum) -- Colophon