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The quick guide to wild edible plants : easy to pick, easy to prepare / Lytton John Musselman and Harold J. Wiggins.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Musselman, Lytton John, 1943- author.
Wiggins, Harold J., 1953- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Wild plants, Edible--East (U.S.).
Wild plants, Edible.
Cooking (Wild foods)--East (U.S.).
Cooking (Wild foods).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (145 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
2013.
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
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.
Contents:
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
Deadly harvest: plants you should avoid
Poison ivy, Poison oak, Poison sumac
Poison hemlock
Mushrooms
Nature's storehouse of edible plants
Condiments
Sassafras
Field garlic
Aperitifs
Swamp bay
Red spruce
Greens
Chicory
Curly dock
Glasswort
Kudzu
Stinging nettle
Black walnut
Starches
American lotus
Arrowhead
Groundnut
Nut sedge
Oak
Softstem bulrush
Spring beauty
Grains and grainoids used like grains
Cane
Manna grass
River oats
Yellow pond lily
Flowers
Black locust
Cattail
Orange day lily
Redbud
Sweets
Indian strawberry
Pawpaw
Cordials
Blueberries
Oyster mushroom
Chicken of the woods
Puffballs.
Notes:
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781421408729
1421408724
OCLC:
854892383

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