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• Nothing Left in My Hands

  the Issei of a Rural California Town, 1900-1942

  Nakane, Kazuko

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  An account of the first-generation Japanese immigrants who came to the Pajaro Valley of central California in the early 1900s, where they were key contributors to the development of the region's strawberry farming.

• The Chinese Kitchen Garden

  Growing Techniques and Family Recipes From a Classic Cuisine

  Kiang-Spray, Wendy

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  Steamed Sea Bass pg 160 (calls for chinese parsley AKA cilantro)

• Growing Chinese Vegetables in Your Own Backyard

  Grow 40 Vegetables and Herbs in Gardens and Pots

  Harrington, Geri

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  Chinese parsley (cilantro): pgs 128-31 / Mizuna, pgs 14-16

• Secong Generation Seeds

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  A collective of Asian American growers devoted to helping communities of the Asian diaspora discover and deepen their cultural heritage through seeds.

• Eating Asian America

  a Food Studies Reader

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• Minari

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• The One-straw Revolution

  An Introduction to Natural Farming

  Fukuoka, Masanobu

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  Masanobu Fukuoka was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide free cultivation methods from which he created a particular…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Second Generation Seeds Perilla Growing Guide

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  cultural and historical context, detailed step-by-step instructions for growing perilla

• Watercress

  Wang, Andrea

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  Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.

• The Ugly Vegetables

  Lin, Grace

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  A little girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all. Includes a recipe.

• Who Really Feeds the World?

  the Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology

  Shiva, Vandana

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  Vandana Shiva is an Indian physicist, world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, and a tireless crusader for sustainable agriculture, economic and gender justice.

• This Bittersweet Soil

  the Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910

  Chan, Sucheng

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  Based on prodigious research, this book chronicles the activities of the thousands of Chinese agricultural pioneers and entrepreneurs who helped make California the nation's premier agricultural state.

• Oriental Vegetables

  the Complete Guide for Garden and Kitchen

  Larkcom, Joy

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  Perilla: pgs 108-10

• A Cook's Guide to Chinese Vegetables

  Dahlen, Martha

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• Philip Vera Cruz

  a Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement

  Scharlin, Craig

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  Filipino farm workers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the long history of farm labor struggles in California. Their efforts led to the creation of the United Farm…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm

  a Cultivator's Guide to Small-scale Organic Herb Production

  Schafer, Peg, 1962-

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• Farming the Home Place

  a Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982

  Matsumoto, Valerie J.

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  In 1919, against a backdrop of a long history of anti-Asian nativism, a handful of Japanese families established Cortez Colony in a bleak pocket of the San Joaquin Valley. Valerie Matsumoto chronicles conflicts within the community as well as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Japanese Legacy

  Farming and Community Life in California's Santa Clara Valley

  Lukes, Timothy J., 1950-

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• Korean Home Cooking

  Classic and Modern Recipes

  Kim, Sohui,

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  Stuffed fried perilla leaves pg 40 Perilla kimchi pgs 128-129

• Asian Greens

  Lau, Anita Loh-yien

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  Wilted Mizuna with walnuts, pg. 30