Word: teases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until 1973, Doris Mitchell, former assistant dean of Radcliffe, had coordinated activities for black women, such as teas, open houses and a career symposium, thereby delaying the need for a formal organization like ABRW. "After she left, there was really no one around who had the interest she had in...
By coincidence, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently tightened its regulations and now prohibits the sale of teas made from sassafras if they still contain its essential oil, safrole, a suspected cause of cancer. But not one of the plethora of regulatory agencies in Washington appears to have...
As Puritan Leader John Winthrop's ship neared the Massachusetts coast, "there came a smell offshore like the smell of a garden." The garden-like fragrance of herbs still hangs on the New England air, and with it the sweet smell of commercial success. Indeed, Americans' fascination with...
Some herbs have undisputed medicinal value. As Dorothy Hall points out in The Book of Herbs (Scribners; $7.95), to be published next month, "some of our old grandmothers' recipes are proving to be not so old-hat after all." For example, horehound, an age-old relief for coughs and...
and classics "Two teas both with sugar please."