The Everything Guide to Foraging: Identifying, Harvesting, and Cooking Nature's Wild Fruits and Vegetables

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From the field to your table-- how to find and prepare wild foods. This is your one-stop reference for identifying and harvesting the wild fruits and vegetables that grow in fields, forests, and even on your own lawn. Abstract: Suitable for readers who are interested in wild plants and how they can be used for food, this title guides readers from their gardens to the meadows, thickets, forests, wetlands, beaches, mountains, and deserts with exercises on how to identify the plants that they are likely to encounter, harvesting techniques, and 150 recipes for using them.  Read more... Content: The way of the forager -- Connecting with plants -- Becoming plant wise -- Poisonous plants -- Plant families -- Where the wild things grow -- Invasive aliens -- Spring emergents -- Summer's harvest -- Fall foraging -- Winter foraging -- Growing wild -- Into the forager's kitchen -- Storing wild plants -- Beverages -- Appetizers, salads, sauces, and spreads -- Soups and vegetable dishes -- Green cuisine -- Breads -- Desserts.