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One of the most useful trees in the world, it's all you need to survive on a desert island. Or just treat yourself to some coconut prawns whilst sipping a vodka, grapefruit and coconut water cocktail. Then treat your skin with an invigorating coconut oil and sea salt body scrub.
Super Food: Coconut includes:
Feature spreads - covering everything from the history of coconuts, health benefits, palm wine and how to grow your own. Plus the coconut's role in JFK's WWII experiences!
Delicious food and drink recipes - from snacks, starters, mains and desserts to smoothies and cocktails. Treat yourself to coconut prawns whilst sipping your vodka, grapefruit and coconut water cocktail.
Health and beauty recipes - from coconut moisturiser to a invigorating coconut oil and sea salt body scrub.
Food is super! There's all sorts of things you can do with fruit and veg - and not always what you'd expect. Whether it's cooking delicious dishes, looking after your teeth or making facepacks, there's all kinds of interesting, healthy uses for fruit and veg. Each book in the Super Foods series takes a look at one ingredient and shows a host of uses - both practical and delicious. The first books in the series are: Avocado, Cucumber, Pomegranate, Lemon, Beetroot and Coconut.
Super Food: Coconut includes:
Feature spreads - covering everything from the history of coconuts, health benefits, palm wine and how to grow your own. Plus the coconut's role in JFK's WWII experiences!
Delicious food and drink recipes - from snacks, starters, mains and desserts to smoothies and cocktails. Treat yourself to coconut prawns whilst sipping your vodka, grapefruit and coconut water cocktail.
Health and beauty recipes - from coconut moisturiser to a invigorating coconut oil and sea salt body scrub.
Food is super! There's all sorts of things you can do with fruit and veg - and not always what you'd expect. Whether it's cooking delicious dishes, looking after your teeth or making facepacks, there's all kinds of interesting, healthy uses for fruit and veg. Each book in the Super Foods series takes a look at one ingredient and shows a host of uses - both practical and delicious. The first books in the series are: Avocado, Cucumber, Pomegranate, Lemon, Beetroot and Coconut.
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Super Food - Bloomsbury Publishing
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CONVERSION CHART
RECIPES
GIVE THE GENTLEMAN A COCONUT!
PALM WINE
HEALTH & BEAUTY
JFK AND PT-109 TORPEDO BOAT
GROW YOUR OWN
INTRODUCTION
‘The Cocoa Nut is, of all Palms, most deservedly valued as one of the greatest of the many blessings showered down by a bountiful Providence upon the inhabitants of a tropical clime.’
Thomas Treloar,
The Prince of Palms, 1852
HISTORY
The earliest references to the coconut (cocos nucifera L.) are in ancient Sanskrit texts, where it is referred to as kalpavriksha, meaning ‘tree which gives everything you need’, showing the coconut’s many uses were recognised and appreciated from early times. It is still revered in Indian religion and used in Hindu ceremonies, representing good luck and prosperity.
The coconut appears to have originated in the islands of the south Pacific, from where it spread to southern India, although its distribution route and indeed its origin are debated. A recent study has examined the DNA of coconuts and identified two distinct types, one found in the Pacific basin between Asia and America and the other in the Indo-Atlantic basin between Asia and the Caribbean via Western Africa, which suggests that the coconut was first cultivated in Asia and spread both east and west from there.
It is likely that the coconut was carried to other lands by seafarers plying their way along ancient trade routes. In the account of Sinbad’s 5th voyage (based on the adventures of Eastern traders in the 8th–9th centuries) Sinbad describes how he was shown a method of harvesting coconuts by throwing
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