Book published on the history of vegetables

The author, who now manages an organic garden on the Welsh border, reveals peculiar, intriguing and funny stories about the history of the vegetable in his book titled Spade, Skirret and Parsnip, The Curious History of Vegetables.

Laws dispels many of the boring images associated with the vegetable such as couch-potato and cabbage-head, and instead illustrates the long and diverse history of vegetables; from peas and lettuce being some of the oldest in the world, potatoes dividing the Protestants and Catholics in the 1700s, aphrodisiacs, allotments and tales of market trade, to secrets from the vegetable show.

Laws has published seven books and writes for the press on topics covering gardens, homes and history.