Try it! : how Frieda Caplan changed the way we eat

Grades K - 3

This lively picture book biography features Frieda Caplan, who shook things up in the 1950s when she started selling mushrooms at the Seventh Street produce market in downtown Los Angeles. The first woman in the U.S. to own and operate a wholesale produce business, she introduced new and exotic fruits and vegetables to the American palate. A delicious combination of entertaining text and charming illustrations that readers are sure to savor.