Introduction and early use of sesame in America: Medicine, cookery, and folkways

Sesame: The Genus Sesamum

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 389-422

  Bedigian, Dorothea ^a  

^a MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

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