Fruit and Nuts or Religion and Wine

Fruit and Nuts: A Comprehensive Guide to the Cultivation, Uses and Health Benefits of over 300 Food-Producing Plants

Author: Susanna Lyl

An informative and comprehensive guide to growing and using more than 200 species of fruits and nuts, this A–Z reference will inspire gardeners to grow and use a wider variety of edible plants. Each entry includes a brief history, detailed description, and authoritative information on propagation, as well as helpful advice about harvesting times and methods, cultivation and location needs, pruning, pests and diseases, nutrition and health benefits, and medicinal uses. An extensive, annotated list of cultivars will help gardeners and growers select the most appropriate plants for their location and needs. Suitable for home gardeners, horticulture professionals, orchardists, and nutritionists.

Book about: How to Buy Food for Economy and Quality or The American History Cookbook

Religion and Wine: A Cultural History of Wine Drinking in the United States

Author: Robert C Fuller

Wine, more than any other food or beverage, is intimately associated with religious experience and celebratory rituals. Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in American cultural history. From the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock to the Franciscans and Jesuits who pioneered California's Mission Trail, many American religious groups have required wine to perform their sacraments and enliven their evening meals. This book tells the story of how viniculture in America was started and sustained by a broad spectrum of religious denominations. In the process, it offers new insights into the special relationship between wine production and consumption and the spiritual dimension of human experience.

Library Journal

Fuller (religion, Bradley Coll.) has written that rare combination of scholarly treatise and entertaining social history. He traces the relationship between wine and religion from the earliest Egyptian religious uses of wine to contemporary American religious attitudes toward wine. He examines not only the ways in which religious prohibitions of wine arose but also the production of wine by various religious organizations. An intoxicating book; highly recommended.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Religion, Wine, and Eastern "High Culture"	10
Ch. 2	Western Expansion: Religion and "A Happy Wineland"	24
Ch. 3	Wine and American Religious Communities	40
Ch. 4	The Grapes of Wrath: Prohibition	74
Ch. 5	Popular Religion and the Wine Revolution	96
	Epilogue. Religion and Wine: Concluding Observations	111
	Notes	119
	Suggested Readings	133
	Index	137