- Joined
- Jun 20, 2010
- Member Type
- Retired English Teacher
- Native Language
- British English
- Home Country
- England
- Current Location
- England
I've just read a short story called The Eye, by Savio Pham (a native of Bozeman, Montana*) in the March/April 2023 edition of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, in which a character refuses an offer of coffee, saying 'I drink hot breel', an infusion of breel roots. All we learn about this beverage is that it has 'undeniable health benefits, though too earthy for some'.
Mysteriously, OneLook.com is singularly unhelpful about breel, and the only link I can find about it from Google is a website offering to sell me a selection of breel mugs..
Is anybody else's curiosity piqued about this plant?
*Hands up if you remember Sheldon decamping to Bozeman in The Big Bang Theory.