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The quick guide to wild edible plants : easy to pick, easy to prepare /

In this book, two botanists coach readers on how to safely identify, gather, and prepare delicious dishes from readily available plants - and indicate which ones to avoid. More than 200 color illustrations, accompanied by detailed descriptions, will help readers recognize edible plants such as nettl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Musselman, Lytton John, 1943-
Otros Autores: Wiggins, Harold J., 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Wild plants as food ; Before you begin ; Emergency food ; How to use this book ; Guidelines for using the recipes ; About flavorings, sweeteners, and oils ; Beverages ; Recipes for failure
  • Deadly harvest : plants you should avoid. Poison ivy, Poison oak, Poison sumac ; Poison hemlock ; Mushrooms
  • Nature's storehouse of edible plants
  • Condiments. Sassafras ; Field garlic
  • Aperitifs. Swamp bay ; Red spruce
  • Greens. Chicory ; Curly dock ; Glasswort ; Kudzu ; Stinging nettle ; Black walnut
  • Starches. American lotus ; Arrowhead ; Groundnut ; Nut sedge ; Oak ; Softstem bulrush ; Spring beauty
  • Grains and grainoids used like grains. Cane ; Manna grass ; River oats ; Yellow pond lily
  • Flowers. Black locust ; Cattail ; Orange day lily ; Redbud
  • Sweets. Indian strawberry ; Pawpaw
  • Cordials. Blueberries
  • Mushrooms. Oyster mushroom ; Chicken of the woods ; Puffballs.