Jeanne Osnas is not content to rest on her leaf-eating laurels:
I would love to know more about the plant species composition of regional diets around the globe. It would be amazing to put this information into a “master greens tree,” so we can evaluate the relative contributions to the greens tree of cultural history of plant use and the organismal and evolutionary biology of the plants themselves.
There has to be a way to make this a crowd-sourced effort …
great idea, jeremy – are ancient admissible? I’m working up some material on greens (and a few other plants in ancient Egypt) for a blog. Also, there’s some very neat stuff in medieval mss.
I’m sure that all data points will be welcome.