Introduction

Appears in
Fool's Gold: A History of British Saffron
Fool's Gold

By Sam Bilton

Published 2022

  • About
  • 1 Graves (1984), pp. 21-4.
  • 2 Harrison (1994), pp. 348-56; Skinner (1911), pp. 95-6.
  • 3 Liger (1706), pp. 262-3.
  • 4 Ovid (1812), 152.
  • 5 Bernhardt (2008), pp. 56-8.
  • 6 Harrison (1994), pp. 348-56.
  • 7 Dalby, A. and Dalby, R. (2017), p. 28.
  • 8 Leyel (1938), p. 330.
  • 9 Francis (2020), pp. 2-9.
  • 10 Francis (2020), pp. 2-9. In some climates the flowers appear before the leaves,
  • 11 Francis (2020), p. 5.
  • 12 Culpeper (2007), p. 246.
  • 13 Rick Stein’s Cornwall, S01E13, BBC 2, 20 January 2021.