Babas Kitchen Medicines Folk Remedies Of Ukrainian Settlers In Western Canada
by Michael Mucz
From fever to frostbite, this encyclopedic compilation of tinctures, poultices, salves, decoctions, infusions, plasters, and tonics will fascinate and often mortify readers from all walks of life. Baba's Kitchen Medicines is an incomparable compendium brimming with the cultural memory of Ukrainian settlers from the Canadian prairies. The comprehensiveness of Mucz's research, framed with deftly painted historical, cultural, and botanical backgrounds, guarantees that this chapter of Canadian folk history will be kept alive for generations to come. Baba's Kitchen Medicines is a thorough, charming, and often moving work of anthropology, history, and ethnobotany that will find itself at home on all manner of bookshelves. --Book Jacket.