Stories
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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.
Catalogue
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Fennel; advertising safe sex as preventing AIDS. Colour lithograph for AIDS Hilfe Schweiz, 2002.
Date: [2002]Reference: 752122i- Pictures
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Fennel-leaved pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1795.
Sowerby, James, 1757-1822.Date: 1795Reference: 25083i- Pictures
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Fennel-leaved pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
Date: 1 June 1831Reference: 24204i- Pictures
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Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Miller): flowering and fruiting stems with separate node and floral and fruiting segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
Date: [1778]Reference: 17396i- Digital Images
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Foeniculum vulgare (Fennel)
Rowan McOnegal