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ISBN: 029275390X 0292749163 Year: 2013 Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press,
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What would Thanksgiving be without pecan pie? New Orleans without pecan pralines? Southern cooks would have to hang up their aprons without America’s native nut, whose popularity has spread far beyond the tree’s natural home. But as familiar as the pecan is, most people don’t know the fascinating story of how native pecan trees fed Americans for thousands of years until the nut was “improved” a little more than a century ago—and why that rapid domestication actually threatens the pecan’s long-term future. In The Pecan, acclaimed writer and historian James McWilliams explores the history of America’s most important commercial nut. He describes how essential the pecan was for Native Americans—by some calculations, an average pecan harvest had the food value of nearly 150,000 bison. McWilliams explains that, because of its natural edibility, abundance, and ease of harvesting, the pecan was left in its natural state longer than any other commercial fruit or nut crop in America. Yet once the process of “improvement” began, it took less than a century for the pecan to be almost totally domesticated. Today, more than 300 million pounds of pecans are produced every year in the United States—and as much as half of that total might be exported to China, which has fallen in love with America’s native nut. McWilliams also warns that, as ubiquitous as the pecan has become, it is vulnerable to a “perfect storm” of economic threats and ecological disasters that could wipe it out within a generation. This lively history suggests why the pecan deserves to be recognized as a true American heirloom.
Pecan. --- Pecan industry. --- Carya illinoensis --- Carya illinoinensis --- Carya oliviformis --- Carya pecan --- Hicoria pecan --- Pecan tree --- Hickories --- Hicans --- Nut industry
ISBN: 0203709683 1283964686 1135024502 9781135024505 0415406056 9780415406055 9780203709689 0700712798 9780700712793 9781135024482 9781135024499 1135024499 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis,
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The work explores the historical and intellectual context of Tsongkhapa's philosophy and addresses the critical issues related to questions of development and originality in Tsongkhapa's thought. It also deals extensively with one of Tsongkhapa's primary concerns, namely his attempts to demonstrate that the Middle Way philosophy's deconstructive analysis does not negate the reality of the everyday world. The study's central focus, however, is the question of the existence and the nature of self. This is explored both in terms of Tsongkhapa's deconstruction of the self and his reconstruction of
Madhyamkia (Buddhism). --- Philosophy, Tibetan. --- Tson?-kha-pa Blo-bzan?-grags-pa, 1357-1419. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Buddhism --- Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa, --- Ācārya Sumatikīrti Coṅkhāpa, --- Ācārya Tsoṅkhāpā, --- Ācāryacoṅkhāpā, --- Blo-bzang-grags-pa, Tsong-kha-pa, --- Blo-bzang-grags-pa, Rje Tzong-kha-pa, --- Bogd Zonkhaba, --- Bogd Zonkhav, --- Coṅ-khāpa, Sumatikīrti, --- Rje Tsong-kha-pa, --- Rje Tsong-kha-pa chen-po, --- Rje Tzong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa, --- Shar Rgyal-ba Tsong-kha-pa Dpal-bzang-po, --- Sumatikīrti Coṅkhāpa, --- Tsong-kha-pa Dpal-bzang-po, Shar Rgyal-ba, --- Tsong-ka-pa, --- Tsong-kha-pa, --- Tsong Khapa, --- Tsongkapa, --- Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa, --- Tsonkapa, --- Tsoṅkhāpā, Ācarya, --- Tsung-kʻa-pa, --- Tsung-kʻa-pa-ta-shih, --- Zongkaba, --- Zonkhaba, --- Zonkhav, --- Zonkhava Luvsandagva, --- Zongkeba, --- Зонхав, --- 宗喀巴, --- 宗喀巴大師, --- 宗喀巴大师,
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