Nectar and Ambrosia: An Encyclopedia of Food in World MythologyBloomsbury Academic, 26. 10. 2000. - 285 страница A publishing first, Nectar and Ambrosia presents an encyclopedic treatment of the magic properties and uses of food by mortals and immortals alike, from the pages of myth and legend. |
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... BREADFRUIT Breadfruit is a staple food of the Pacific is- lands , where people have cultivated the tree since antiquity . This tree likely originated on the Malay Peninsula , then long ago spread , from island to island , throughout the ...
... BREADFRUIT Breadfruit is a staple food of the Pacific is- lands , where people have cultivated the tree since antiquity . This tree likely originated on the Malay Peninsula , then long ago spread , from island to island , throughout the ...
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... breadfruit deal with its origin . In some stories , the breadfruit tree grew first on a mythical island ; then gods or goddesses or people with magic powers car- ried the seeds from place to place . In a Ha- waiian legend , the ...
... breadfruit deal with its origin . In some stories , the breadfruit tree grew first on a mythical island ; then gods or goddesses or people with magic powers car- ried the seeds from place to place . In a Ha- waiian legend , the ...
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... Breadfruit ; Coffee ; Milk ; Sugar and Sugarcane ; Taro COFFEE Coffee beans are native to Africa , particularly to the Abyssinian province of Caffa , from which coffee got its name . In Abyssinia ( mod- ern Ethiopia ) , coffee beans ...
... Breadfruit ; Coffee ; Milk ; Sugar and Sugarcane ; Taro COFFEE Coffee beans are native to Africa , particularly to the Abyssinian province of Caffa , from which coffee got its name . In Abyssinia ( mod- ern Ethiopia ) , coffee beans ...
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