Overview

A recent rise in the popularity of urban farming, farmers' markets, and foraging from nature means more people are looking for information about plants. In The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants, botanists Lytton John Musselman and Harold J. Wiggins coach you on how to safely identify, gather, and prepare delicious dishes from readily available plants-and clearly indicate which ones to avoid. More than 200 color illustrations, accompanied by detailed descriptions, will help you recognize edible plants such as nettles, daylilies, river oats, and tearthumbs. For decades, Musselman and Wiggins have taught courses on how to prepare local plants, and their field-to-table recipes require only a few, easily found ingredients. They offer instructions for making garlic powder out of field garlic and turning acorns into flour for Rappahannock Acorn Cakes. To toast your new skill, they even include recipes for cordials. The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants is a great gift for the beginning naturalist and the perfect addition to every serious forager's library.

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Author:   Lytton John Musselman (Mary Payne Hogan Professor of Botany, Old Dominion University) ,  Harold J. Wiggins (Environmental Scientist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9781421424293

ISBN 10:   1421424290
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   21 September 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Wild Plants as Food Before You Begin Emergency Food How to Use This Book Guidelines for Using the Recipes . About Flavorings, Sweeteners, and Oils Beverages Recipes for Failure 2. Deadly Harvest Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac Poison Hemlock Mushrooms 3. Nature's Storehouse of Edible Plants 4. Condiments Sassafras Field Garlic 5. Aperitifs Swamp Bay Red Spruce 6. Greens Chicory Curly Dock Glasswort Kudzu Stinging Nettle Black Walnut 7. Starches American Lotus Arrowhead Groundnut Nut Sedge Oaks Softstem Bulrush Spring Beauty 8. Grains and Plants Used Like Grains Cane Manna Grass River Oats Yellow Pond Lily 9. Flowers Black Locust Cattails Orange Day Lily Redbud 10. Sweets Indian Strawberry Pawpaw 11. Cordials Blueberries 12. Mushrooms Oyster Mushroom Chicken of the Woods Puffballs Index of Recipes

Reviews

The book is witty and full of commonsense. It is a jolly good read for anyone. Portland Book Review Whether this is your passion or merely something you might be interested in learning about, check out The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants... Should I ever get a craving for stinging nettle omelet or black locust fritters, I will know exactly which wild edible plant book to look in. Aiken Standard

Author Information

Lytton John Musselman is the Mary Payne Hogan Professor of Botany at Old Dominion University. He is the coauthor of Plants of the Chesapeake Bay: A Guide to Wildflowers, Grasses, Aquatic Vegetation, Trees, Shrubs, and Other Flora and the author of A Dictionary of Bible Plants. Harold J. Wiggins is a wetlands ecologist and environmental scientist who spent over 24 years with the Regulatory Program, US Army Corps of Engineers. He is the cofounder of the Fredericksburg chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society and the author of Virginia Native Plants.

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