The Wild Food Trailguide

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A new and expanded edition of the book Explorer magazine called "an indispensable field guide to the most common edible plants of North America."
• Eighty-five plants that are really worth eating
• Each plant is illustrated, each has a range map
• Descriptions are in everyday language and require no botanical expertise
• Over twenty-five uses—from salads to seasonings, from pickles to pies, flours, beers, sweets, vegetables, snacks — extend a backpacker's range, a camper's food supply
• Can be used year-round, on the trail or in the backyard, to add variety to meals and a new dimension to walks and outings
• Cross-listings make it easy to select a plant according to the season, the habitat, or the food use required
• A separate section is devoted to poisonous look-alikes
• Every line has been checked for accuracy by a professional botanist
• Carefully spells out the part of the plant that is edible, its use, and the stage of growth at which to collect it
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Fülszöveg

A new and expanded edition of the book Explorer magazine called "an indispensable field guide to the most common edible plants of North America."
• Eighty-five plants that are really worth eating
• Each plant is illustrated, each has a range map
• Descriptions are in everyday language and require no botanical expertise
• Over twenty-five uses—from salads to seasonings, from pickles to pies, flours, beers, sweets, vegetables, snacks — extend a backpacker's range, a camper's food supply
• Can be used year-round, on the trail or in the backyard, to add variety to meals and a new dimension to walks and outings
• Cross-listings make it easy to select a plant according to the season, the habitat, or the food use required
• A separate section is devoted to poisonous look-alikes
• Every line has been checked for accuracy by a professional botanist
• Carefully spells out the part of the plant that is edible, its use, and the stage of growth at which to collect it
• As indispensable in the pack as a first-aid kit
Invaluable in identifying, locating, and preparing wild foods, this trailguide makes plant selection sure, safe, and easy. "A handy paperback extremely well organized."
—John L. Hess, The New York Times
Alan Hall, who has done a good deal of crosscountry foraging, is currently settled on a farm outside Ithaca. His knowledge of wild foods reaches back to his childhood in rural upstate New York and to his botanist father Cover photo: The author picking Highbush Blueberries. Vissza