SC - Apicius on Ebay
Elaine Koogler
ekoogler at chesapeake.net
Mon Jul 24 05:23:00 PDT 2000
Hope this helps! Andrea
>From Waverly Root: Food
"I. verum, the genuine star anise, has a poor cousin, I. anisatum, bitter and
toxic, sometimes called instead I.religiosum because it plays a role in
sacred ceremonies in China and Japan. It is used in the latter to drug the
desperate into relative insensiblity before the commit hara-kiri."
1980, Simon and Schuster,NY
page 7
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