Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt To Plate
Edible Wild Plants provides what you really need to know to have your own wild food adventures. Whether a beginner or advanced wild food aficionado, gardener, chef, botanist, nutritionist, scientist, or a dieter with special needs, this book is for you. Author John Kallas gives you unprecedented details, maps, simple explanations, and multiple close-up photographs of every plant covered at every important stage of growth. You learn that a plant is not only edible but when, why, and how it is....
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Edible Wild Plants is a pictorial guide to edible plants that transports the reader into a world of new food possibilities. This is a genuinely useful new tool for the modern day forager, gardener, and food preparer. With today's needs and sensibilities in mind, this book reveals what wild foods are all about, showing dramatic evidence of their potential for use, and describes/reveals them in unprecedented depth, clarity, and in full color -- the kind of depth that gives readers confidence in their ability to correctly identify and finally begin using the plants. The following plants are covered in detail, each illustrated by many beautiful photographs: wild spinach, chickweed, common mallow, purslane, curly dock, broad-leaved dock, sheep sorrel, wood sorrel, field mustard, wintercress, garlic mustard, shepherd's purse, dandelion, cat's ear, sow thistle, and nipplewort. Photographs and varying amounts of information are give for an additional 24 plants whose coverage is found using the index.
This book is designed to help you successfully identify, understand, manage, and enjoy the wild foods covered. It is a user manual and a reverse field guide whose development is based on experience. It is filled with purposeful photographs and the kind of information designed to genuinely serves your learning needs. The plants included are divided into flavor categories to help guide your use.\ Whether you are new to wild foods or are well versed in the topic, my intent is that you should find this book personal, practical, and fun to use. I write from personal experience and present information in a way intended to help you learn what you really need to know to be successful.\ By successful I mean that with time you will be able to identify the plants I cover, understand how to get the most out of them, and have satisfying culinary experiences as a result of your efforts. And that is the point, isn't it? To go from the wild to something your taste buds recognize as good food.
7 Acknowledgments 9 About the Author 12 Disclaimer? Yeah, Right! 14 Preface 17 Welcome to My World 23 Part I: Understanding Wild Foods 25 1 Identifying and Enjoying Wild Foods 35 2 What Is Edible? 43 3 When Plant Parts Morph into Food 53 4 Foraging Tools 65 Part II: Th e Plants 66 Foundation Greens 67 5 Wild Spinach 85 6 Chickweed 101 7 Mallow 129 8 Purslane 141 Tart Greens 143 9 Curly Dock 165 10 Sheep Sorrel 177 11 Wood Sorrel 191 Pungent Greens 195 12 Field Mustard 217 13 Wintercress 231 14 Garlic Mustard 249 15 Shepherd's Purse 261 Bitter Greens 269 16 Dandelion 297 17 Cat's Ear 313 18 Sow Thistle 329 19 Nipplewort 343 Part III: The Potential of Wild Foods 345 20 Why Eat Wild Foods?351 21 The Nutrition of Wild Foods 373 22 Oxalates 383 23 Agriotrophytology 387 24 Crafting a Wild Paradise 395 25 Feeding Yourself and Society 401 References 407 Index
