Comments on: What are we reading? http://christinawaters.com/2007/06/04/what-are-we-reading/ Smart Mouth Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:07:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: sue http://christinawaters.com/2007/06/04/what-are-we-reading/#comment-803 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:49:46 +0000 http://christinawaters.com/2007/06/04/what-are-we-reading/#comment-803 speaking of summer reading, I picked up a book at the bookshop in the Aptos center(great bookshop!): "Pomegrante Roads", which is the memoirs of a 1950's Soviet ag researcher posted to an obscure mountain valley where he propagated over 1,000 species of pomegrantes he collected from his travels all over the Central Asia region. A great yet sad story of the failure of the station as it died (literally) due to lack of gov't funding after the fall of the Soviet Union. Dr. Levin tells the reader every pertinent fact about pomegranates; history, lore, uses, etc. translated from Russian,;it is fascinating. Highly rec this book. Found this blog via a recent Chowhound.com mention. Lovely! Bookmarked! speaking of summer reading, I picked up a book at the bookshop in the Aptos center(great bookshop!): “Pomegrante Roads”, which is the memoirs of a 1950’s Soviet ag researcher posted to an obscure mountain valley where he propagated over 1,000 species of pomegrantes he collected from his travels all over the Central Asia region. A great yet sad story of the failure of the station as it died (literally) due to lack of gov’t funding after the fall of the Soviet Union. Dr. Levin tells the reader every pertinent fact about pomegranates; history, lore, uses, etc. translated from Russian,;it is fascinating. Highly rec this book.

Found this blog via a recent Chowhound.com mention. Lovely! Bookmarked!

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