""COVER""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION: Vegetables In and Out of the Garden""; ""CHAPTER ONE: In Which: Asparagus Seduces the King of France""; ""CHAPTER TWO: In Which: Beans Beat Back the Dark Ages""; ""CHAPTER THREE: In Which: Beets Make Victorian Belles Blush""; ""CHAPTER FOUR: In Which: Cabbage Confounds Diogenes""; ""CHAPTER FIVE: In Which: Carrots Win the Trojan War""; ""CHAPTER SIX: In Which: Celery Contributes to Casanova�s Conquests""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN: In Which: Corn Creates Vampires""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT: In Which: Cucumbers Imitate Pigeons""

""CHAPTER NINE: In Which: An Eggplant Causes a Holy Man to Faint""""CHAPTER TEN: In Which: Lettuce Puts Insomniacs to Sleep""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN: In Which: Melons Undermine Mark Twain�s Morals""; ""CHAPTER TWELVE: In Which: Onions Offend Don Quixote""; ""CHAPTER THIRTEEN: In Which: Peas Almost Poison General Washington""; ""CHAPTER FOURTEEN: In Which: Peppers Win the Nobel Prize""; ""CHAPTER FIFTEEN: In Which: Potatoes Baffle the Conquistadors""; ""CHAPTER SIXTEEN: In Which: Pumpkins Attend the World�s Fair""; ""CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: In Which: Radishes Identify Witches""

""CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: In Which: Spinach Deceives a Generation of Children""""CHAPTER NINETEEN: In Which: Tomatoes Fail to Kill Colonel Johnson""; ""CHAPTER TWENTY: In Which: Turnips Make a Viscount Famous""; ""GENERAL SOURCES""; ""NOTES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""