{"id":229,"date":"2025-10-14T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:14:07","slug":"annual-herbal-symposium-held-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Herbal Symposium held in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8212; The Pennsylvania Heartland Herb Society held its annual Herbal Symposium on Monday at the DoubleTree in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit has held the event since 1982.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to discuss the power and uses of herbs.<\/p>\n<p>This year, participants heard from author William Woys Weaver.<\/p>\n<p>He held a talk on the culinary evolution of Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the different strands of the different people&#8230;blended together into a kind of regional food identity,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver also gave a talk about the author of America&#8217;s first book on botanical medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8212; The Pennsylvania Heartland Herb Society held its annual Herbal Symposium on Monday at the DoubleTree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}