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About the author

KAY K. MOSS is adjunct curator, retired program specialist, and founder of Eighteenth-Century Backcountry Lifeways Studies at the Schiele Museum of Natural History. She is the author of Seeking the Historical Cook: Exploring Eighteenth-Century Southern Foodways, Southern Folk Medicine, Decorative Motifs from the Southern Backcountry, and Journey to the Piedmont Past, and coauthor of The Backcountry Housewife.

Summary

A richly illustrated collection of herbal fact and lore that illuminates the "why" rather than the "how" of the historical kitchen garden. Rather than offering a how-to of gardening methods, Kay Moss and Suzanne Simmons trace herbs and their uses back to earlier times and places.

Product details

• Authors: Kay K Moss, Kay K. Moss, Kay K. Simmons Moss, Suzanne S Simmons, Suzanne S. Simmons
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780820357829
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-5782-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Wormsloe Foundation Publicatio; Wormsloe Foundation Nature Boo; Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works