Urban foraging : find, gather, and cook 50 wild plants / Lisa M. Rose ; photography by Miriam Doan.
Material type: TextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 234 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781643260839
- 1643260839
- Find, gather, and cook 50 wild plants
- Find, gather, and cook fifty wild plants
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 581.632 R796 | Checked out | 05/28/2024 | 33111010906762 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Your city is full of wild food, you just need to know where to find it.
Take a stroll to discover the ingredients for a wild apple tarte tatin. Turn the lilac bush found in a vacant lot into a delicious, delicately flavored jelly for your morning pastry. Discover a new way to feast on fresh food. Urban Foraging is a stylish, scrumptious guide to wildcrafting in the city. You'll learn how to find, identify, harvest, and cook with 50 common wild plants, such as chickweed, dandelion, echinacea, honeysuckle, red clover, and pine. Expert forager Lisa M. Rose shares all the basics necessary for a successful harvest: clear photos that aid identification, tips for ethical and safe gathering, details on culinary uses, and simple recipes will help you make truly fresh, nutritious meals.
Includes index.
COMMON URBAN PLANTS, A-Z: Apple -- Artemisia -- Aspen -- Autumn Olive -- Blackberry -- Bundock -- Catnip -- Chickweed -- Chicory -- Crabapple -- Currants -- Dandelion -- Daylily -- Dock -- Elder -- Field Garlic -- Garlic Mustard -- Ginkgo -- Goldenrod -- Ground Ivy -- Honeysuckle -- Hyssop -- Japanese Knotweed -- Lamb's Quarters -- Lilac -- Monarda -- Mulberry -- Nettle -- Oak -- Pennycress -- Peppermint -- Persimmon -- Pine -- Plantain -- Prickly Pear -- Purslane -- Raspberry -- Red Clover -- Rose -- Russian Sage -- Spearmint -- Spruce -- St. John's Wort -- Sunchoke -- Sweet Clover -- Violet -- Wild Carrot -- Wild Grape -- Wood Sorrel -- Yarrow.
"We can all make tasty and surprising dishes from wild food found in our cities. With expert advice from professional forager and bestselling Timber author Lisa Rose, alongside elegant photography, this handy guide explains how to identify and where to find 50 plants that grow across the temperate US; accompanying simple recipes help prepare wild feasts"-- Provided by publisher.