[Artemisia] Competition

[Freydis the Good]

Neener, neener, neener!!!  There are older cookbooks showing the Romans used
it first.  :-)

<chuckle>

Freydis
~ Who has starts & seeds to share.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Kathleen Govan <kathleen.govan at yahoo.com>wrote:

> OOOoooh! I love the learning and exploring that comes from this list and
> these discussions! I had no idea what Lovage was, so upon searching - look
> what I found! Cas - looky......!
>
> Lovage tea can be applied to wounds as an antiseptic, or drunk to stimulate
> digestion. In the UK, Lovage cordial is traditionally mixed with brandy in
> the ratio of 2:1 as a winter drink.
>
> Sounds interesting to me!
>
> Brigit
>
>
> --- On Thu, 4/30/09, Freydis the Good <freydisthegood at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Freydis the Good <freydisthegood at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Competition
> To: "Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
> Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 9:45 PM
>
>
> Oooooo....  does it discuss Lovage (*Levisticum officinale*), herb of the
> family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) native to southern Europe?
> Curious,
> Freydis
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM, <LadyPDC at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > It is the gardening diary of a minor lord or there abouts whose hobby was
> > his gardens.  It covers about a 5 year time span.  Unfortunately it is
> > written in Medieval Italian, which bears about as much resemblance to
> > modern
> > Italian that Olde English bear to American Slang.  So the going is quite
> >  slow
> > since my knowledge of anything Italian dates back to high school and is
> > hopelessly mushed together with high school Spanish and Jr. High School
> > French.  I kept changing languages and didn't learn any of them well at
> >  all.
> > Now many years later, it is a challenge to get through a few  paragraphs
> > and
> > understand some of what he is writing. (not to mention that the  book was
> > written and printed and bound in 1503 - not a modern copy, the actual
> >  book, so
> > I am quite careful of the book itself, which also slows down the
> > translation.)
> >
> > So I can tell you that so far he hasn't mentioned Roses but that I
> haven't
> > made it through a great deal of the book either so the rose section may
> > well be  in the great undiscovered portions of the book.
> >
> > But I would be glad to share it with you at some safe place and time, or
> at
> >  least let you know if I do run across reference to roses.  So far the
> > small  section that I have managed to translate has ben fascinating both
> in
> > new
> > discoveries on methods I had not know of and in the discussion of some
> > methods  that I had thought were unknown until a later time.
> >
> > It is a lovely, if painfully slow and delicate, read though and I will
> be
> > sharing some of the things I have learned from it in my class at
> uprising.
> >
> >
> >
> > Constance de la Rose
> >
> > -
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 4/30/2009 12:30:49 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> > dtavares1 at hotmail.com writes:
> >
> > Dame Constance made my eyes light up:
> >
> >
> > > Not to  mention the Italian Gardening Book from 1503 that I have been
> > slowly
> > >  translating and applying
> >
> >
> >
> > Oooh, I haven't heard about this  one!! Does it discuss  roses?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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