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This study examines plants associated with ritual purity, fertility, prosperity and life, and plants associated with ritual impurity, sickness, ill fate and death. It provides detail from history, ethnography, religious studies, classics, folklore, ethnobotany and medicine.

Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician, did not himself eat fava beans in any form, in fact, he banned his followers from eating them. Cultural geographer Frederick Simoons disputes the contention that Pythagoras established that ban because he recognized the danger of favism, a disease that afflicts genetically-predisposed individuals who consume fava beans. Contradicting more deterministic explanations of history, Simoons argues that ri...

?The book will be enjoyed by readers who want to learn more about cultural geography. It will also be used as a reference by those whose professional lives are involved with some aspect of food preferences and prejudices.?-Journal of Home Economics