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Folklore & odysseys of food & medicinal plants

by Ernst Lehner

Many little-known facts are found in this delightfully written account of the therapeutic, magical, exotic, and nutritional uses of plants. The second section of the book, "They Physic Garden," provides a pictorial directory of various herbs, spices, and seeds and relates their medicinal, nutritive, religions, legendary, and symbolic properties.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?