Book Oleksiy Kovalenko (set of 3 books)
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For a long time mushrooms were considered to be something on the same level as plants (for example, they often sit in one place, do not yum and do not ask for food), and some species were even considered to be animals and minerals. Well, everyone has made a mistake. Mushrooms are just mushrooms.
In truth, everything is obviously more complicated. And about this in his new book botanist Oleksiy Kovalenko. What is common in Pliny the Elder and glues? What mushrooms did the "snow man" carry with him? Dancing plague, pauvannya na vidom and how do mushrooms relate to all this? How much is the most expensive mushroom in the world and how did mushrooms get to the potato famine in Europe? What mushrooms grew on the walls of Unit 4 and who killed the Australian athletes?
And the author also told about LSD and psilocybin, liverworts that are not champignons, how your early bowl of kava is threatened by a parasitic fungus, whether it is possible to create meat from mushrooms, what the tea mushroom is.
This is a story about mushrooms and their role in the life of our planet, because it has already happened that on Earth it is not easy to find places where mushrooms grow - it is harder to find a place where they do not exist.
Book 2. Roslini-Pribulci. How borshchivnik and ragweed are flooding the Earth
They easily dominate space and time. Under the onslaught of their armies entire continents fall. They are green. They are in our midst. They are the newcomers.
Loboda or Voloshka, which at first glance appears to be a harmless at first glance, can become a harbinger. And for some time you simply do not recognise your garden or the field in your grandmother's village. Tenditni roslinki break through the asphalt and take over everything on its way, not dbyuchi about what grew on this territory before them. One minute and it will be necessary to find in the budget a borrowed milliard in order to avoid the planned damage.
How did the North American maple take over Ukraine? Why shouldn't you go into the borschivnika bog? What is the danger of water plague, which is disguised as mimosa and chamomile in citkovy shops, and what kind of species can destroy the foundation of your house? The botanist Oleksiy Kovalenko describes the peculiarities of such plants and the mechanisms of fighting them, including food preparation, in his new book.
Botanist Oleksiy Kovalenko.
Book 3. Fructi conti ovochiv. Why kavun is not a berry and tomato is a fruit Peppers and pomidori are not vegetables. Buckwheat is a pot. Cherries are not berries.
All our lives, successfully ignoring botany, we are guided only by one simple (and hibnym) rule: licorice is a fruit, and all bars are vegetables. In reality, it does not work like that. In the book "Fruits vs. Vegetables" botanist, museum worker and author of the blog "Dovkolabotanika" Olexiy Kovalenko will tell the true history of the products that we see every day in the kitchen and in the supermarket, and will also teach you to distinguish an ovoch from a fruit, a pot - from a pot, and a kavun - from a berry. In the book Oleksiy will explain who tried to cure with firecrackers of the futility and bites of scorpions, how lettuce was attributed to the ability to influence the male potency, where did the boletus commanded to us and how to cook chestnuts at home and not destroy the flat into pieces.
Before you - not a collection of recipes and not even a book of botany, the book by Olexiy Kovalenka - a real and pre-tepnoy history of the mostvichainisinskih vegetables and fruits: From the peculiarities of their DNA and breeding to the greatest myths and culinary lifehacks. Olexiy Kovalenko works at the National Science and Nature Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where he is engaged in scientific research, conducts lectures and educational interactive programmes. In his free time he actively popularises botany - he keeps a blog and Youtube-channel "Dovkolabotanka", a page "Botanik in sneakers", writes for the Facebook page of the Museum of Nature, where he talks about plasunins, yabluk, mineral and dinosaurs, and many other popular science platforms.
Olexiy decided to become a botanist back in the 6th grade and did not change his mind. "Studying plants and being fascinated by them is one of the things that make the world famous. And as it is written on my coat of arms "Don't be mean - study botany!"" - Oleksiy laughs.