Fruits and vegetables - Oleksiy Kovalenko (9786177960064)

Peppers and tomatoes are not vegetables. Buckwheat is a nut. Cherry is not a berry.

All our lives, successfully ignoring botany, we are guided by only one simple (and false) rule: sweets are fruits, and everything else is vegetables. It doesn't really work that way. In the book “Fruits vs. Vegetables,” botanist, museum worker and author of the blog “Dovkolabotanika” Alexey Kovalenko will tell the real story of the products that we see every day in the kitchen and in the supermarket, and we will also teach you to distinguish a vegetable from a fruit, a nut from a nut, and a watermelon. berries. In the book, Alexey will explain who tried to treat infertility and the tastes of scorpions with cucumbers, how the salad was attributed to the ability to influence male potency, where he brought beets to us, and how to cook chestnuts at home and not tear your apartment to pieces.

This is not a collection of recipes or even a textbook on botany, the book by Alexey Kovalenko is a real and witty story of ordinary vegetables and fruits: from the peculiarities of their DNA and selection to amazing myths and culinary life hacks.

Alexey Kovalenko works at the National Science and Natural Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, is engaged in scientific research, conducts lectures and educational interactive programs. In his free time, he actively popularizes botany - he runs a blog and Youtube channel “Dovkolabotanika”, a page “Botanist in Sneakers”, writes for the Facebook pages of the natural museum, talks about reptiles, apples, minerals and dinosaurs and a number of other popular science topics. .

Alexey decided to become a botanist back in the 6th grade and has not changed his mind since then. “The study of plants and a sincere passion for them is one of those things that will save the world. And as it is written on my family coat of arms, “Don’t be mean – study botany!” – Alexey smiles.