The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants: Easy to Pick, Easy to Prepare

Musselman, Lytton John & Harold J. Wiggins

ISBN 10: 1421408716 / ISBN 13: 9781421408712

Published by Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore, 2013

About this Item

8vo, 133 pp. Fine copy (issued without dust jacket).

Seller Inventory # 118196

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants: Easy to Pick, Easy to Prepare
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1421408716
• ISBN 13: 9781421408712
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: Well-illustrated
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Food & Drink

About this title

Synopsis

Field-to-table cuisine! Connect with (and eat) the diverse flora around us.

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.

About the Author

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.