Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide to Over 200 Natural Foods Author: Thomas Elias | Language: English | ISBN:
1402767153 | Format: EPUB
Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide to Over 200 Natural Foods Description
Review
“Hundreds of edible species are included...[This] handy paperback guide includes jelly, jam, and pie recipes, a seasonal key to plants, [and a] chart listing nutritional contents.”—Booklist
“Beautiful color photographs...temptingly arranged.”—The Library Letter
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Sterling; 3.8.2009 edition (April 7, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1402767153
- ISBN-13: 978-1402767159
- Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Beneficial foraging books
The opening paragraphs are designed to assist others avoid some of the pit falls I made in purchasing wild food literature. You can skip this and go directly to the individual book reviews if you choose. Please note that this review is of multiple wild food books. I prefer authors that work with the plants they are writing about, and don't just repeat things they read from another book (yes some wild food authors actually do that). I also prefer books with good descriptions, lots of photos of each plant to make identification easier, and to cover the plant from identification to the plate. That's my bias, here is my review.
I'm just a guy who likes to forage and enjoys the learning and nutritional aspect of wild foods. My main purpose for writing this review of multiple wild food books on one review is to assist others coming to wild foods for the first time (like I was three years ago), and to hopefully help them avoid some of the easily avoided pit falls I made in the literature I chose. At first I wanted books with the most plants in it for my money. It made sense to me at the time but ended up being a grave mistake. Books that devote one picture and a brief explanation to a plethera of plants helped me identify some plants in one stage of growth, but did next to nothing that would have allowed me to use them as food. Example, most books will show you one picture of the adult plant. Many times that's not when you want to harvest it. No one would eat a bannana that was over ripe and pure black and call banana's in general inedible due to that experience. Yet many who have sampled a dandelion have done exactly that.
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