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Melons are the vegetable garden's crown jewels - and Amy Goldman's lifelong passion and calling. Her new book, THE MELON, will entice and educate, whether you are a passionate gardener, a locavore, or simply delight in the inherent beauty and evanescence of the fruits of the vine. THE MELON was produced by Amy Goldman in collaboration with celebrated photographer Victor Schrager over the course of nine years. It's a cut above their award-winning melon book MELONS FOR THE PASSIONATE GROWER, published in 2002. In the intervening years, Goldman has grown as a gardener and has learned a lot more. She has taken advantage of recent research findings that informed her thinking on crop history and best cultural practices. THE MELON includes additional horticultural groups of melon and gives watermelon - which is less genetically diverse - more of a fair shake.
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AMY GOLDMANAmy Goldman is a gardener, author, artist, and well-known advocate for seed saving, plant breeding, and heirloom fruits and vegetables. Her mission is to celebrate and catalog the magnificent diversity of standard, open-pollinated varieties, and to promote their conservation.Goldman is described as "perhaps the world's premier vegetable gardener" by Gregory Long, President Emeritus of the New York Botanical Garden.She has authored five books, including four that have earned the American Horticultural Society Book of the Year award: Melons for the Passionate Grower (2002) , The Compleat Squash: A Passionate Grower's Guide to Pumpkins, Squashes, and Gourds (2004) , The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table (2008) , and The Melon (2019) . Heirloom Harvest: Modern Daguerreotypes of Historic Garden Treasures, illustrated by Jerry Spagnoli, was published in 2015.Melons are Goldman's lifelong love and calling. This new book, The Melon, illustrated by Victor Schrager and many years in the making, is a comprehensive and definitive work that includes portraits in words and photographs of 125 extraordinary varieties, expert advice on cultivation and seed saving, and a generous selection of delicious melon recipes.VICTOR SCHRAGERFor more than 30 years Victor Schrager has been a master of still-life photography. Born in Maryland, Schrager grew up in New York City. He earned a BA at Harvard in 1972 and an MFA at Florida State University in 1975. Schrager's photographs explore how different modes of information, especially visual, literary, historical, and scientific, function to produce and communicate knowledge. The works for which he is best known are still lifes composed of layered images and texts--among them reproductions of paintings, maps, magazine pictures, pages from books, and photographic prints--in an investigation of how context structures the meaning of all representations.His work has been exhibited at galleries and museums around the world and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among many others. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts.Schrager has been the principal photographer for four of Amy Goldman's books on vegetables and fruits. He lives in upstate New York.
