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Article: Eating dandelions (and other wild foods) could save your life.(Brief Article)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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Peggy Zone Fisher, wife of former Ohio gubernatorial candidate Lee Fisher, tells about how her father survived a Nazi concentration camp in WWII by eating dandelions growing in the exercise yard. He came home, while others died.
People have survived wars, depressions and other serious catastrophes by knowing how to identify and eat dandelions and other wild vegetables.
According to Dr. Peter Gail, ethnobotanist and author of The Dandelion Celebration: A Guide to Unexpected Cuisine, (Goosefoot Acres Press, Cleveland Ohio, $10.95; 158 pp trade paperback), modern society is made up of specialists, each able to do only one job. The money they earn at that ...