Making Black Salt: A Personal Evolution
Madame Ja A FEW RECIPES FOR BLACK SALT Black Salt is one of those traditional preparations that you either use or you don’t. It’s easy enough to make, especially these days, and…
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Horse Hair and “Live Things In You”
FOOD FIDDLIN’ AT ITS FINEST, OR WORST It is said that if you feed things like horse hair, snake parts, scorpions, insects, frog spawn, and the like to a target,…
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More Botanica Articles
I HAVE FOUND SOMETHING INTERESTING IN EACH ONE OF THESE… You may or may not. But that’s the nature of blogging — you put it out into the ether and…
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Adore Your Olds and Everybody Else’s
TAKE TIME FOR THE OLDER GENERATIONS I saw this article while searching for something else. I thought it was cute and a good reminder of how important it is to…
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Another Legendary Hoodoo Drugstore
THE CRACKER JACK A great article on yet another “hoodoo drugstore.” Originally posted on the “Know Louisiana” Website: The Cracker Jack: A Hoodoo Drugstore in the “Cradle of Jazz”. Copyright…
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Botanicas: The Hispanic Version of the Hoodoo Drugstore
BOTANICAS, YERBERIAS, Y MAS I have frequented many botanicas and they always seem to fall into two categories — those that are welcoming and helpful and those that clearly do…
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The Best Little Hoodoo Pharmacy in Texas
TEXAS MONTHLY ARTICLE ON A FAMOUS TEXAS DRUGSTORE So glad to see this piece on Stanley Drug Company in one of my favorite publications. Enjoy! The Best Little Hoodoo Pharmacy…
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