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Neil’s guest today is historian and friend of the show Emma
Kay. Today we talk about Emma’s new book A History of Herbalism: Cook, Cure
& Conjure which was published in June 2022.
We talk about the importance of herbs in medicine, magic and
food, and how these things were interconnected, the four humours, Anglo-Saxon
medical texts, the double standards surrounding men and women who practised
magic and medicine, two female pioneers of botany and herbalism, and narcotic
garden vegetables.
Emma’s book is published by Pen &
Sword History: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/A-History-of-Herbalism-Hardback/p/21395
Follow Emma on twitter @museumofkitchen
and Insta @emma_kay_author. Her website is www.museumofkitchenalia.com.
Things mentioned in today’s episode:
Marianne North’s edited biography: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Recollections_of_a_Happy_Life/fdnVAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious
Herbal: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_Curious_Herbal_Containing_Five_Hundred/ogHjFWeztJAC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Neil’s book A Dark History of
Sugar is available now from all bookshops as well as from the publisher Pen
& Sword: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/A-Dark-History-of-Sugar-Hardback/p/20481
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