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Phone Sandra - 07 4068 9263
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Phone Ann - 07 4129 7238
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Category: Books
  Title: The Breadfruit Cookbook Popular views:177
Description   The Breadfruit Cookbook contains 115 recipes using breadfruit as a major ingredient. It is organised into seven chapters from traditional recipes to ripe fruit desserts. Being spiral bound, pages lay flat when opened, making it easy to use while preparing a recipe. The recipes are relatively straightforward using breadfruit of various maturity stages and readily available ingredients.
Review submitted: 26/9/2007
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  Title: Discovering Fruit and Nuts Popular views:204
Description   A Comprehensive Guide to the Cultivation, Uses and Health Benefits of over 300 Food-Producing Plants by Susanna Lyle, 2006

Produced in Australia by the CSIRO, this massive book is an inspiration for people to grow and try new foods. It is an extensive guide to temperate and subtropical fruit and nut plants. The A-Z guide presents over 300 species with information on cultivation and propagation, harvesting times and yields, storing and using the produce and the most popular varieties. There is particular emphasis on the nutritional and health benefits of the fruit r nut described. Within these main entries, there are brief descriptions of over 250 similar species, expanding the coverage of the book still further. Illustrated with colour photos. 480pp

Comment from Regina Parsons at Wide Bay Branch of the RFCA:
"What I particularly liked was the index at the front. Don't you hate having to try and hold open a big book whilst searching the index at the back. Another great feature is that you can see at a glance the description of the fruit or nuts flavour because it is printed in a different colour. You immediately know if the flavour appeals to your without searching through the entire description."

Review submitted: 25/5/2007
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 Title: Poster - Mango Varieties Popular views:296
Description   Full color 22 x 38 inch gorgeous printed poster of 143 Mango varieties from around the world. It makes you realise just how diverse fruit really is and how our western ways are reducing this diversity
Review submitted: 29/10/2006
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 Title: Passionfruit Problem Solver - Field Guide Popular views:299
Description   A new book has been published by Queensland DPI&F to help commercial passionfruit growers produce top quality fruit for consumers. The Passionfruit Problem-solver Field Guide is an 118-page booklet illustrated with 216 colour photographs covering the pests, diseases, disorders and beneficial insects of passionfruit in Australia.

Jeff Daniells and Roger Goebel provided assistance in its development. The booklet is suitable for use in the field being a handy pocket size and printed on tough waterproof paper.

Copies are available from DPI&F’s Maroochy Research Station (phone +61 7 54412211) for A$35 (+GST) plus postage and handling or email peter.rigden@dpi.qld.gov.au.
Review submitted: 21/2/2006
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  Title: The Coconut Odyssey; the bounteous possibilities of the tree of life Popular views:302
Description   Mike Foale, the author of this 132 page book,has worked throughout the coconut areas of the world since 1958. Mike has documented unique experiences with the coconut and points to the considerable value this plant has, particularly as a food with great potential to improve health, for well into the future.

The “grandfather palm” at Mapoon, from the thriving coconut plantation in mission times is featured on page 28. There is discussion on the status of the coconut as an “Australian native plant” in the context of its pan-tropical distribution by the ocean.

This book helps present the true value of the coconut, a plant that, through multiple products and uses, adds value to the community and variety to the diet.

Copies of this ACIAR monograph No. 101 are available for are free for people in developing countries or $AU25 plus postage from Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
(www.aciar.gov.au).
Review submitted: 21/2/2006
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