Last week I was tearing apart my kitchen cabinet looking for asafoetida spice, when my eye fell on a screw-top glass jar filled with little chunks of brown “cramp” bark. I confess my kitchen pantry ...

Quasimodo (a.k.a. The Hunchback of Notre Dame) had it all wrong. Instead of pining for Esmeralda atop his bell tower, he should have convinced the woman to bring him a few stems from the cramp bark ...

Last week I was tearing apart my kitchen cabinet looking for asafoetida spice, when my eye fell on a screw-top glass jar filled with little chunks of brown “cramp” bark. I confess, my kitchen pantry ...