Healing Herbal Teas or American Beach Cookbook

Healing Herbal Teas: A Complete Guide to Making Delicious, Healthful Beverages

Author: Brigitte Mars

Plants are endowed with important nutrients and potent healing compounds. When you brew plants in water, the resulting beverage, herbal tea, is imbued with those constituents, carrying them into your body, where they are quickly absorbed. Teas are easy to prepare, inexpensive, nutrient rich, and delicious!

In Healing Herbal Teas, you'll find profiles of forty-five common herbs with extraordinary therapeutic potential, along with advice on obtaining, storing, and brewing teas from them. Have a specific health concern you'd like to address? Author Brigitte Mars offers more than 100 simple formulas for a vast range of health concerns, from relieving allergy symptoms to clearing up the skin to nourishing a growing baby in utero. Want to customize your own herbal blends? Mars, who is often applauded for her ability to bring together the wisdom of disparate healing traditions, shows you how, offering basic guidelines as well as theories from different cultures and eras. And, as Mars explains, teas are not just for sipping! For treating everything from wounds and rashes to sore muscles, colds and flu, and dandruff, try topical applications of tea.

If you become a true tea aficionado, you'll want to share your passion by indulging in the high culture of tea: tea parties. These events can be organized to welcome guests, to renew friendships, or to simply celebrate life. Inside, you'll find ideas for organizing tea parties, as well as Mars's favorite recipes to serve with teas.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	v
	Introduction	1
1	The Fine Art of Tea	3
2	The Healing Herbs	23
3	Herbal Formulas	103
4	Healing Teas Used Topically	127
5	Fun with Tea Parties	135
	Glossary	149
	Bibliography	159
	Resources	161
	Other Works by Brigitte Mars	165
	Index	167

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American Beach Cookbook

Author: Marsha Dean Phelts

From its founding in 1935 to the present, trips to American Beach have meant good times, good friends, and great food.
 
Located on Amelia Island in northeast Florida and established by the Pension
Bureau of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company, American Beach today is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It remains a beloved vacation destination as well as a year-round home for many African Americans.
 
For The American Beach Cookbook, Marsha Dean Phelts has collected nearly 300 recipes passed down through generations. Over the years, many influences have found their way into the dishes and are represented here by everything from pig's feet to sweet potato pone and from smothered shrimp to bourbon slushes. Mouths will water at such treats as fried cheese grits, she-crab soup, seafood casserole, crab coated shrimp chops, cornbread dumplings, chicken curry, corn relish, pickled peaches, Big Mama's fruitcake, and much more.
 
In addition to the recipes, readers will enjoy compelling vignettes that illustrate the heritage of people and potables, vintage photographs, and area maps that together tell one of the great stories of a unique community.