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Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa 9780226086163

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Bitter Roots

BIT TER ROOTS The Search for Healing Plants in Africa

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare

The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2014 by Abena Dove Osseo-Asare All rights reserved. Published 2014. Printed in the United States of America 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14

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ISBN-13: 978- 0-226- 08552- 4 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978- 0-226- 08602- 6 (paper) ISBN-13: 978- 0-226- 08616-3 (e-book) DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226086163.001.0001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove Agyepoma, author. Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa / Abena Dove Osseo-Asare. pages ; cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0-226- 08552- 4 (cloth : alkaline paper) — ISBN 978- 0-226- 08602- 6 (paperback : alkaline paper) — ISBN 978-

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Éric Frechon is old-school French culinary royalty. You may have heard his name in connection with London’s Lanesborough Hotel where he is consultant chef to the one Michelin-starred Céleste restaurant, opened in 2015. But his heart belongs to Paris where he worked at Taillevent, La Tour d’Argent and Hotel de Crillon before heading up the kitchen of Le Bristol where he has held three Michelin stars since 2009 and where a starter of caviar with smoked haddock ratte potatoes fetches a cool €150.

The dish is included in this opulent tome as one of just 60 recipes. With a cover price of nearly fifty quid, that means you’re getting about half the usual amount for roughly twice the average price which cynics might say is business as usual for a three-star chef. But if you do shell out, be prepared to be delighted and frustrated by turns.

Benoît Linero’s dense, brooding images of Frechon’s dishes and favoured ingredients owe more to renaissance painting than modern food photography and are unquestionably breath-taking, but the decision not to show all the recipes as they are served i

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THE WORLD CAPITAL OF FOOD CHAPTER 6 ‘Eating in France is a ritual that can reach religious proportions.’ —David Appleﬁeld 186 CultureShock! Paris FRENCH CUISINE Parisians love their restaurants. They love to eat in this capital of haute cuisine, and when they’re not eating, they’re talking about where to eat next. While Paris itself is not known for a particular cuisine, the city has, luckily, taken to its heart all the finest regional cuisines of France; what is served in the finest restaurants is called haute cuisine or cuisine bourgeoise. Exploring the restaurants in Paris, each with its own approach to flavours and textures, will give you the unparalleled opportunity to participate in what is considered one of the world’s great art forms.

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