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“It’s vinegar saved her”: folk medicine, food, and the flu in A Time of Angels

Rachel Conrad Bracken Rootstown, Ohio, USA   The “D.I.Y. Bragg Apple Cider Drink,” a mixture of water, vinegar, and a natural sweetener, like honey, is “important to the Bragg Healthy Lifestyle.” The publication of Karen Hesse’s young adult novel, A Time of Angels (1997), coincides with a renewed interest in the history of the 1918–1919 […]