Buying Produce: The Greengrocer's Guide to Selecting and Storing Fresh Fruits and Vegetables - Softcover

Murdich, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0688059597 ISBN 13: 9780688059590

Publisher: Hearst Marine Books, 1986

Synopsis

Explaining when to buy, what to look for, and how to store fresh produce, this greengrocer's guide features information on seasons, shelf life, varieties, and quality of more than 175 different fruits, vegetables, nuts, and herbs

About this title

From Library Journal:

The aim of this very knowledgeable and helpful guide is to help the consumer buy top-quality produce. Murdich discusses the most popular varieties of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and herbs on the market as well as many newer and unusual items such as wild mushrooms, fresh olives, exotic melons, and star fruit. The book is well organized and readable. Each entry details the availability, eating, and keeping qualities of the item, and what features to look for when you are buying. There are many new facts to be gleaned from these pagese.g., by freezing a rock-hard, unripe persimmon, you will find it, upon thawing, to be dead ripe! Recommended. Johanna Ezell, Pennsylvania State Univ., Mont Alto Campus Lib.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Murdich, a greengrocer at New York City's Hunt's Point Market, one of the largest wholesale produce centers in the U.S., considers more than 175 different fruits, vegetables, herbs, and nuts (not counting different varieties). He discusses each in detail, indicates when they are in season, how to tell if they are ripe, which varieties are superior and how to store them. Such greengrocer esoterica as the fact that borage is referred to in the trade as "sandpaper" is interspersed with useful tips on how to ripen persimmons and how to tell a Hamlin eating orange from a pineapple juice orange. (JunepTALL SHIPS OF THE WORLD C. Keith Wilbur, M.D., foreword by Captain Ernst M. Cummings. Globe Pequot, $9.95
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hearst Marine Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0688059597
• ISBN 13: 9780688059590
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256