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Stalking the wild asparagus / by Euell Gibbons ; with illustrations by Margaret F. Schroeder ; including a remembrance of the author by John McPhee.
LIBRA - Blank Collection QK98.5.U6 G52 1987 Blank copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibbons, Euell.
- McPhee, John, 1931- author of essay.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wild plants, Edible--United States.
- Wild plants, Edible.
- Wild plants, Edible--Canada.
- Cooking (Wild foods).
- Canada.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Cookbooks.
- cookbooks.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, [3], 303, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- 25th anniversary edition
- Distribution:
- Woodstock, Vt. : Distributed by The Countryman Press,
- Place of Publication:
- Putney, Vt. : Alan C. Hood, Publisher, 1987.
- Contents:
- A Remembrance of Euell Gibbons / by John McPhee
- Some thoughts on wild food
- The Acorn: ancient food of man
- The Green Amaranth: invader from the tropics
- Wild apples and crab apples
- Arrowhead or Wapatoo: favorite food plant of American Indians
- The Jerusalem Artichoke
- Stalking the wild asparagus
- The sweet birch
- Blackberries and dewberries
- The Huckleberry and blueberry tribes
- Great burdock or wild gobo
- Calamus: confection, cure-all and salad plant
- Supermarket of the swamps: the common cattail
- Wild cherries
- Eat your chickory and drink it too
- Wild cranberries
- The official remedy for disorders
- New food from a familiar flower
- A salute to the elderberry: with a nod to scarlet sumac
- Using wild grapes
- Ground cherries for pies and preserves
- The groundnut or Indian potato
- Japanese knotweed: a combination fruit-vegetable
- Juneberries, shadberries or serviceberries
- Sweets from trees
- May apple, or American mandrake
- The common milkweed
- Mulberries: red and white
- The cult of the mycophagists
- Wild mustard: nature's finest health food
- The wild onion family
- The pawpaw: a tropical fruit come North
- The sugar-plum tree: persimmon
- Beating the pigs to the pigweeds
- Poke: wild potherb par excellence
- Purslane: India's gift to the world
- Raspberries and wineberries
- The sassafras for food and drink
- Economics of wild strawberries
- The Spring beauty or fairy spuds
- The common sunflower
- Wildwood teas
- Walnuts and hickory nuts
- The nose twister: king of wild salad plants
- Wild rice: epicurean delight
- Winter cress: the first with the most
- A wild winter garden in your cellar
- Wild honey
- How about the meat course
- Spinning for bluegills
- How to cook a carp
- The crayfish: a real luxury food
- On eating frog's legs
- Turtles and terrapins
- Herbal medicine from wild plants
- The proof of the pudding.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : David McKay, 1962.
- Cover adapted from the original design of Larry Lurin by James F. Brisson.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has handwritten bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has embossed stamp "FCB Library of Fritz Blank".
- ISBN:
- 0911469036
- 9780911469035
- 0911469044
- 9780911469042
- OCLC:
- 16227916
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