bitterroot

In the kitchen, Houseman-Whitehawk cooked green beans, bitterroot and coconut rice on the stove.

Standing in a patch of bitterroot, serviceberry and sage at the foot of Elk Mountain, Mr. Hettick called apps such as OnX “the best thing that’s happened to access in years.”

I said, ‘It’s called bitterroot. It’s something that Native Americans used back in the day to numb their tooth when they got a toothache.’

There were deer, and wild carrots, and bitterroot.

No ingredients are listed on the bottle, but according to the president, the drink is derived from artemisia, a bitterroot used in some malaria drugs.