Herbology East and West's Lotus, Lady and Verse
Readers’ Advisory for Books on Herbs, Spices, and Aromatherapy
“The Chinese Vegan Kitchen… ” is latest of eight cookbooks by Donna Klein featuring vegan and vegetarian fare. Klein is a creative cook [Read more…]
Spice: Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean by Ana Sortun is a love letter to your taste buds. And where the addition of a single plant’s dried fruit, seeds or twigs [Read more…]
Shamanic Gardening: Timeless Techniques for the Modern, Sustainable Garden by Melinda Joy Miller. Process Media, Port Townsend, WA, 2012. 321 pages, illustrated.
Honoring ancient wisdom is a way to look backward in time and to feel good about the ways people kept themselves fed, both physically and spiritually. Looking like that into a mirror of the past is [Read more…]
Raw the Uncook Book New Vegetarian Food for Life. / Juliano Brotman with Erica Lenkert. William Morrow, an Imprint of Harper Collins, 1999.
It’s a choice—change my diet, or take medicine to correct an eating pattern that’s caused a chronic condition? If I take medicine, will I choose a prescription, allopathic, medicine? Or will I chose to follow the wisdom of the ancients and use herbs? The difference will likely be this: prescriptions may not work well, and they may not help me get rid of my condition—especially a chronic condition—that may be with me for the rest of my life. Herbs, recognizable as food by the body, are powerful enough to work with my bodily systems to help change and mitigate that condition. And yet, while herbalists seek to make healing available by alleviating bodily imbalances, no one knows how the future will play out…
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