The Edible Wild: A Complete Cookbook and Guide to Edible Wild Plants in Canada and Eastern North America

by Berndt Berglund

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684127598
• ISBN13: 9780684127590
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Scribner
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.

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This book is both a guide to common North American wild edible plants, as well as a recipe book with ideas for what to do once you find the plants. It contains the following sections: shoots and leaves, roots, nuts and seeds, fruits, fruits, beverages, tobacco and sugar substitutes, wild seasonings, and poisonous plants. Within each section, there are articles about selected individual plants. The articles begin with a general description of the plant, including a pen-and-ink drawing. The description is followed by 6 or 8 recipes using the plant. Some of the recipes are designed for camp cooking in the bush, while others are basically old standard recipes that have been modified through the addition or substitution of the edible plant at hand. Although some of the recipes are vegetarian, this is neither a health-food nor cook-from-scratch kind of book, with its recipes calling for canned soups for flavor or potato chips for crunchiness. Nevertheless, the book does include excellent instructions about how to prepare wild edibles, many following traditional Native American methods. If you've heard that a plant is edible, but you're not sure how or which parts to eat, this book can help you figure out where to begin.