Special Food

Ayla's Cave
CB 16, 258	Death Curse I am hungry, I wish there was something to eat around here. Wait! There is! I didn't collect the nuts this year, they should be all over the ground outside. (...) She gathered the nuts, brought them into the cave, and ate as many as her stomach, shrunken from lack of food, could hold.
CB 16, 259-260	The meadow grasses supplied food, too. They were top-heavy with seeds and grains. In the immediate vicinity were also nuts, high-//bush cranberries, bearberries, hard small apples, starchy potatolike roots, and edible ferns. She was pleased to find milk vetch, the nonpoisonous variety of the plant whose green pods held rows of small round legumes, and she even collected the tiny hard seeds from dried pigweed to grind and add to grains that she cooked into mush. Her environment supplied her needs.
CB 20, 322	After Durc's Birth I'll need to get some wood, she thought, and my food won't last too long, I should get some more. Alfalfa should be sprouting; it'll strengthen my blood, too. New clover and vetch shoots must be ready, and bulbs. The sap is up, the inner bark will be sweet now, especially maple. No, maple doesn't grow this high, but there's birch, and fir. Let's see, new burdock and coltsfoot and young dandelion leaves, and fern, most of it will still be curled.

	Abbreviations	Editions
CB	The Clan of the Cave Bear	The page numbers refer to the hardcover editions by Crown Publishers, Inc, New York 1980, 1982, 1985, 1990. Book 1-3 are the Special Collector's Edition, I don't know if the page numbers differ from those of the 'normal' hardcover editions.
VH	The Valley of Horses
MH	The Mammoth Hunters
PP	The Plains of Passage
(...)	omission	Copyright
...	original in text	All book quotes: © Copyright Jean M. Auel The format and text contents of this site are the property of the author
MGMH	'A Modern Herbal', by Mrs. M. Grieve

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