Remembering Venetia Stanley-Smith, Eco-friendly, U.K.-born Herbalist in Kyoto

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Remembering Venetia Stanley-Smith, Eco-friendly, U.K.-born Herbalist in Kyoto

As I stepped into the more than 100-year-old house clad in Chinese trumpet creepers, my mind flashed back to the day British-born herbalist Venetia Stanley-Smith first welcomed me like an old friend saying, “It’s so hot, isn’t it?” A glass of her handmade juice made from shiso leaves quickly cooled me down. Stanley-Smith — widely known in Japan as simply “Venetia” — died June 21 from aspiration pneumonia at the age of 72 at her much-loved home…