58888X1 Third Printing. North Point Press, San Francisco: 1981. 142 pages. Softcover. Reading copy. One of America's finest stylists has collected a charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers and relates them here interspersed with autobiographical anecdotes from her life in California, Provence, Mexico and Switzerland. These engaging recipes, "a perfect combination of superstition, instinct, and primitive knowledge" deal with commonplace ailments. Ingredients of these extraordinary receipts are transformed into cures and preventatives through the addition of "incantations and mystery, and ageless faith: the essentials of healing." ISBN: 0865470367 $11.95USD
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