Avocado

Jeff Miller is an Associate Professor of Hospitality Management at Colorado State University. He is the co-author of Food Studies: An Introduction to Research Methods (2009) and was named Culinary Educator of the Year in 2017.

• 1 The History of the Avocado2 Growing Avocados 3 Selling an Odd, but Nutritious, Fruit4 Eating Avocados and Other UsesAppendix: Types of AvocadoRecipesReferencesFurther ReadingWebsites and AssociationsAcknowledgementsPhoto AcknowledgementsIndex

"A welcome addition to the Reaktion food series . . . filled with splendid facts, figures, and illustrations . . . This is a fascinating story, beautifully told." - Marion Nestle, Professor Emerita of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, New York University, and author of 'Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat'