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Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages

Singapore food

Congo cookbook

Guide to common vegetables (Singapore)

West African vegetables

Online visit to market in Accra, Ghana

Philippine vegetables

Asia Food

Spices Board of India Journal of Spices and Aromatic Crops
Indian Institute of Spices Research

Spices UCLA Library

The food museum

The Pizza Explorer

How Bread Works

We are what we eat (Course Page)

Seeds of change

National Gardening Association
Education Teacher's Room Ethnobotany

Native seeds

Famine foods homepage

Canoe plants of ancient Hawaii

Fruits of warm climates

International Center for Underutilized Crops

Neglected and Underutilized Crop Species

Plants for a Future

Florida plants online

The plant trivia timeline (alt. version)

Food Timeline Food History Lessons

Cooking with young children

Food and Science (Comprehensive Curriculum from Utah)

Culinary history on the internet

Food history resources

Trees of Borneo

Scott's botanical links

Internet directory for botany

Botany resources

National Tropical Botanical Garden
Plant Talk--Online Bulletin

Missouri Botanical Gardens

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Centre for International Ethnomedical Education and Research

Old Dominion Bible Plants Site

Plants of the Bible; Plants of the Quran--Lectures and Articles

Native Americans and the Land--The Columbian Exchange

Wild Rice Moon

Vascular Plant Family Access Page (Images and Descriptions from the University of Hawaii

Science of Cooking from the Exploratorium

Index of vegetables--Access to Asian vegetables

Plants and People--Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew

Ethnobotanical training in Thailand (online lectures)

African medicinal plants

Economic botany links

Medicinal, culinary, and aromatic plants in the Near East

Native American ethnobotany database

Asian vegetables--Central Queensland University

Ethnobotanical leaflets

Society for Economic Botany Economic Botany Journal

Multilingual plant name database (U. of Melbourne)

History of Biomedicine--Indigenous Cultures--Karolinska Institutet

Rainforest links

The Forest Herberium--Thailand
Useful links

Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crops

The great stinking clue (durian theory)

Rubber Jungle

Ridley's Rubber Farms

Flora of Missouri

Web Garden from The Ohio State University

New Crop Resources from Purdue University

Plants and Civilization--Lecture Notes & Refs.

Cultural and Historical Aspects of Food--Oregon State University Food Resources OSU

Sir Joseph Banks' Papers Alfred Wallace Pages

Directory of Health, Medicine, and Human Life Sciences--Folk Medicine

Ethnobotany from the National Health Museum
(includes classroom activities)

Online Books in Agriculture and Plant Science
Seeds Seed Dispersal and Frugivory

Tamarind Book Tamarind Pages

Gnostic Garden--Ethnobotany Resources

Sacred Earth--Ethnobotany Resources

Botanical Society of America--Online Image Collection

Mundo Maya online Study of Maya Corn Seed in Chiapas

Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink

Wayne's Word--Natural History Info (extensive)

The pods are the fruit of a rainforest tree (Petai = Parkia speciosa) for sale in a market in Melaka, Malaysia. (click on photo to see list of bat-pollinated plants of interest to humans)

See the meals, flours, and starches from a diverse array of plants. Supermarket in Warrensburg, MO.
(click on photo for enlarged view and more links)

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Explore the diverse botanical and culinary links. Many lead to amazing sites. Some are quite extensive and link again to other websites, online articles and books, archives, images, and more. Those interested in plants and people will find useful references and much material for developing teaching ideas. More links and sources for teaching ideas can be found throughout this site. Use the back button to return.