“To this day polenta is food for dogs or poor people... It’s hard for us to get out of these speeches and looks,” says Cecilia Trillo, biologist specializing in “ethnobotany”

Cecilia Trillo is a biologist and dedicates herself to ethnobotany, a science that studies the relationships of humans with plants. Within this world she was especially interested in edible plants, which she has researched through the mountains and countryside of Córdoba and Catamafrutrca, motivated by the following questions: What are the family strategies of people living in dry, saline and arid environments? Who taught them? How did they lear…