Sassafras is another name for methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA). It’s a hallucinogenic drug that can cause feelings of euphoria but may also lead to sleep disturbances or hallucinations. Share on ...

This recipe was inspired by Wildman Steve Brill, who has a foraged, vegan version in his Wild Vegetarian Cookbook. The Wildman uses cashews for their creamy texture and actual sassafras roots foraged ...

Medical professionals do not recommend consuming sassafras tea. This is because sassafras oil is extremely toxic to humans. Some of this toxicity may be present in sassafras tea. Sassafras is a tree ...

Following Independence Day, what better wild ingredient to feature than sassafras? The aromatic bark, leaves, and roots were believed to be the first plant exported from North America to Europe, back ...

Root beer is back. That’s right, root beer -- the dark brown stuff, cola’s elder brother, the foundation of that most perfect of soda fountain drinks: the root beer float. Not too long ago, you were ...

Sassafras was once one of the largest exports from the U.S. to Europe. Native Americans used the inner root bark of the tree, indigenous to the eastern part of the country, to calm upset stomachs and ...

AGAINST the Indian-summer sky, a tree lifts up its hands and testifies to glory, the glory of a blue October day. Yellow or orange, or blood-orange, or sometimes softest salmon pink, or blotched with ...

Catherine Redcloud was a sickly and stunted child, given to congestions, coughs and wheezes. She needed medicine, but medicine tasted bad. Her grandmother, a Creek Indian from the Poarch Creek ...

Root beer usually is not made of roots and it is not a beer. But like many things we celebrate at Crossroads at Big Creek, this uniquely American beverage grew out of a concern for clean drinking ...

If I had to choose a favorite tree, it would be sassafras (Sassafras albidum) because its leaves come in three fun shapes. Some are oval; others have three lobes; still others have a single lobe and ...