Taraxacum officinale and is derived from the word "opificina", later "officina", meaning a workshop or pharmacy. The flowers are used to make dandelion wine, the greens are used in salads, the roots have been used to make a coffee substitute (when baked and ground into powder) and the plant was used by Native Americans as a food and medicine. Dandelions are harvested from the wild or grown on a small scale as a leaf vegetable. The leaves (called dandelion greens) can be eaten cooked or raw in various forms, such as in soup or salad. They are probably closest in character to
Roots to the Bone Roots to the Bone Roots to the Bone was issued in 1995 by Island Records as a reissue of Rico Rodriguez' most important album, "Man from Wareika", (minus two tracks: Rasta and Gunga Din) with some 12" sides from the late 1970s. Rico was musically very active during that time playing in Europe as well as in Japan. He just had releases with Jazz Jamaica and continued with his own recordings he had produced in Japan during 1994/1995. At the same time Trojan re-released his 1969 LPs, "Blow Your Horn" and "Brixton Cat", while Island used its Reggae Refreshers series