Johanna Lehner Libri

Exploring the journeys of food and plants, this book delves into the voyages, intrigues, and conflicts that shaped the culinary staples we enjoy today. It offers a treasure trove of curious facts about various items, including cereals, beverages, and crops like potatoes and peanuts. Enhanced by 200 illustrations sourced from historical herbals and manuscripts, this volume serves as both a pictorial history and a valuable resource for artists, folklorists, and collectors interested in the cultural significance of these everyday items.

2012 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this unique and fascinating book, two collectors of pictorial symbols tell the story of flower symbolism, explaining its religious, magical and legendary significance and revealing hundreds of curious and little know facts. This is an essential work for folklorists, for artists and designers in all fields, for botanical and gardening specialists, and for all those who would be familiar with the hidden language of flowers, plants and trees. Profusely illustrated.