Book Review

A well-made book for readers in the middle grades, offering nourishing portions of modern technology, brief, never very detailed, indulgently sweetened by nature, but of surprising clarity and breadth...

The tale of the three great flavors tilts more towards history, economic botany, good maps, and bright pods growing in dark tropical forests than to the chemical engineering that produces filled cans and bottles. ...the best story among the three flavors, one not well known even to grown-ups, is that of the wise eighteenth-century French gardeners who first found the rather subtle properties of the strawberry plant.

~ Philip amd Phylis Morrison, Scientific American exerpt