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How to Forage for Wild Foods without Dying

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Identifying 40 Edible Wild Plants

by Ellen Zachos
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This on-the-go guide is perfect for new foragers eager to learn about the edible plants they're most likely to find, no matter what region they're in, and provides photos and easy-to-follow identification and use guidelines for the 40 most common—and most delicious—wild plants.

How to Forage for Wild Foods without Dying is a book for anyone who likes to go on nature walks and would like to learn about the edible plants they’re most likely to come across—no matter what region they’re in. Author Ellen Zachos shares her considerable expertise, acquired over decades of foraging in every part of North America. She offers clear, concise descriptions of edible wild plants, in addition to any potential lookalikes, as well as critical information about proper harvesting, processing, and cooking. Zachos has curated the plant selection to include only the 40 most common, most delicious edible plants, ranging from black walnuts and juniper berries to elderflowers, burdock, fiddlehead ferns, lambsquarter, wild garlic, sunchokes, and many more. With Zachos’s expert advice and easy-to-follow guidelines, readers will be confident in identifying which plants they can safely eat and which ones they should definitely avoid. Easy instructions for preparation and eating for maximum enjoyment are included.
 

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  • Release date

    October 10, 2023

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

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      • ISBN: 9781635866148

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      • ISBN: 9781635866148
      • File size: 45247 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      September 1, 2023

      This book by expert forager Zachos (The Wildcrafted Cocktail; cohost, Plantrama) joins a number of other guides for finding and preparing wild edibles that derive from the parts or wholes of common flowers, weeds, trees, and shrubs. Enhanced by lavish photographs and a friendly narrative tone, the book offers a responsibly researched and charming take on why and when to forage, how to locate and identify 40 of the most common plants that may be collected safely, and what to do with them once they're brought home. The book directs readers to secondary sources for further research. There's also an index with both the Latin and common names of each plant, best preparation techniques, and caveats. The author also wisely urges would-be foragers to seek professional advice if there's even minor doubt about any plant's safety. VERDICT This handsome book has real utility as a field companion for safe, wild plant hunts.--Dorian Gossy

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      October 1, 2023
      This helpful guide to edible wild plants is perfect for beginners. The first part, "Forage with Confidence!," should be required reading for all newbies, addressing essential topics that nascent foragers might not even know to consider. In a reassuring essay, it offers tips for identification, along with techniques, tools, storage, pollution and spraying, sites, seasons, harvesting windows, and above all else, sustainability. Then Zachos offers detailed descriptions of dozens of edibles that meet her criteria for good foods to forage: common plants found across the United States with multiple uses that don't have too many poisonous look-alikes. These are divided into five sections: common plants (such as dandelions), green weeds (like milkweed), trees and shrubs (including magnolias), shade plants (for instance, stinging nettle), and water-loving plants (think cattails). Individual, four-page profiles provide alternate names, what parts to eat and when to harvest, historic and contemporary usage, how to best prepare and enjoy the plant, an ID checklist, and full-color, closeup photos. The emphasis on sustainable conservation will likely appeal to new foragers.

      COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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