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The trouble with absinthe

Famed for inducing “green fairy” hallucinations, absinthe has been simultaneously lauded for its medicinal properties and condemned as the source of debasement and debauchery.

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Black pepper to fuel fiery fights and cure haemorrhoids

This common condiment was once very valuable and, until surprisingly recently, used as a versatile medicine.

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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger

‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.

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  • Foeniculum vulgare (Fennel)
  • Fennel-leaved pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1795.
  • Fennel-leaved pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Miller): flowering and fruiting stems with separate node and floral and fruiting segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Hog fennel (Peucedanum officinale L.): inflorescence, leaf, stem base, fruit and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Hog fennel (Peucedanum officinale) and eight types of cup fungi (Peziza species). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1823.
  • Six flowering plants, including angelica (Angelica species) and hog's fennel (Peucedanum officinale). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Water fennel (Oenanthe aquatica (L.) Poiret): flowering and fruiting stem with separate flower and fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Hog fennel (Peucedanum ostruthium (L.) Koch.): flowering stem with separate leaf, rootstock, flower and fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Eight British wild flowers, including wild carrot (Daucus carota), bur parsley (Caucalis) and hog's fennel (Peucedanum officinale). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
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