Herbs From The Mediterranean Littoral
Herbs From The Mediterranean Littoral – Last spring, when I visited Epidaurus in Greece, where Asclepius had his sanitarium, or a few weeks earlier, had walked along the shores of Lake Kinnereth, as the Sea of Galilee is called today, events that occurred two to five thousand years ago did not seem at all far away.
Closeness to bygone ages was particularly real when I saw plants I raise in my own New York Garden, such as parsley, rue, sweet marjoram, the thymes, and mints, growing wild or in gardens and noted how they were being dried and used for the same flavor’s, perfumes and foods and processed to provide medicine for the same illnesses’ as they have been since before the beginning of history.