Beautiful, buxom and brainy, Lottie Linguini learns she is allergic to almost everything after moving from the countryside to a city environs. With her dream man by her side, she embarks on a personal healing journey, but will it end with them still together? From the shores of the Hudson River in New York to the Connecticut River in Western Massachusetts, inquisitive Jewish-Italian heroine Latkes Linguini unknowingly follows in the footsteps of freed slave Sojourner Truth, searching for her own truth. Highlighting the unique aestheticism of The Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts, A DRINK OF GREEN is spiced with local eateries, parks and historical sites; references to area culture, past and present; and poems by literary icons Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson.