OVERVIEW The Wild Food Adventure Series, Volume 2 By John Kallas Overview – What’s the book about? You are here. Features – How function and design work to maximize learning. Go HERE. Uniqueness – How this is different than any book including Volume 1? Go HERE Reviews – Visit Amazon, GoodReads and other sources of…
[lead]Here is an interesting way to use black walnut[/lead] Did you know that black walnut trees can be tapped in late winter to produce a syrup similar to maple syrup? If you have access to black walnut trees, this is a great way to put them to use. Black walnut trees are unique in that…
OVERVIEW The Wild Food Adventure Series, Volume 1 By John Kallas Overview – What’s the book about? You are here. Features – How function and design work to maximize learning. Go HERE Uniqueness – How this is different than any book before it. Go HERE Reviews – Visit Amazon, GoodReads and other sources of…
After learning about wild foods from his mom, an avid forager herself, Bob Krumm spent time in various parts of North America learning about wild berries and other edibles. At the four regions covered by his books, he amassed recipes from the local inhabitants and is sharing them with you. Each short chapter covers a…
This book probably sells more copies by it’s title alone, then any other wild food book. It is a cute little hardcover published by Harper Collins Children’s Book Division. They say it is appropriate for ages 4-8. It looks like and is about the size of a children’s book. But I disagree with Harper Collins….
This book could have just as appropriately been included in our edibility section had the title been different. Bill, the actual author, covers thirty plants sharing insights and experiences along the way. He has a degree in biology and is a nature and wild food educator. Each plant-based chapter starts out with Bill sharing his…
This book has the look and feel of the Moosewood Cookbook. The plant and food art within is stylistic – creating a down home mood more than serving to identify the plants illustrated within. Ronna Mogelon is a chef (she studied cooking at George Brown College in Toronto Canada), amateur naturalist, graphic designer and food…
March and March have been writing about and experimenting with wild foods for years. Their first publication was “Common Edible and Medicinal Plants of Colorado” in 1979. Kate March studied cooking at the China Institute in New York City, and with various chefs. “The Wild Taste”, aside from an Appendix, is all recipes. The recipes…
This is the nicest ‘looking’ wild food cookbook I’ve seen. The Wild Food Gourmet is designed in the classic style of photographic-based cookbooks and high end food magazines. The food photography is professionally done, plentiful, and the finished dishes look luxurious. The text is filled with gourmet recipes that range from simple to moderate in…
A potentially useful addition for a wild food library. This is a big book that is worth the $40 if you’re a hard-core wild food researcher. Cornucopia II is an informational and resource catalog potentially covering any plant in the world that has edible parts, not just ‘wild’ edibles of North America. There is, however,…
What Moerman has done is organize a vast amount of information from 206 North American ethnobotanical reports into one 927 page volume. This is a ‘big’ hard cover book of original Native American ethnobotanical knowledge. It covers wild plants that Native Americans used for food, tools, fiber, dyes, medicines, and ceremonials. Using original sources, Moerman…
The encyclopedia is really a catalog of about 4,000 North American plants that, somewhere along the way, have been said to be edible by one or more of François’ many references. Plants are organized by Phylum, Family, Genus, then Species. The catalog is enriched in a relatively few spots by the addition of François’ personal…
There are really no alternatives currently in print to this book. Turner and Szczawinski are ethnobotanists who have written extensively on edible wild plants. And while they are not toxicologists, they have done an excellent job of putting together technical, academic, and medical information about North American poisonous plants, mushrooms, sea vegetables, and more. Their…
This book is divided into two sections – plant identification and recipes. There is a lot packed into this book. It could have just as appropriately been included in our cookbook section – the recipe part is prominent and impressive. The plants cover an area much larger than the title suggests. This book is just…
An important book for those in the Northern and Central Rocky mountain areas as well as other areas in the West. This is a photo-based guide focusing on the identification of wild edible plants. Kershaw’s book, like other Lone Pine publications, covers lots of material. Brief descriptions of foods and medicines, often referring to uses…
An essential book for those in the Southern and Central Rocky mountain areas and useful for the West, in general. This is a photo-based guide focusing on the identification of wild edible plants. Seebeck does more than any other guide by offering four thought-out photographs per plant. Yes, you heard me, four, not one, like…
This is a high quality photographic guide focusing on the ‘identification’ of wild plants that produce berries. Derig and Fuller are ‘mostly’ their own photographers who provide us with 103 berry photographs, 67 flower photographs, and a few vegetative photographs. There are 20 line drawings to supplement the photographs. Like most wildflower guides, they focus…
This is a high quality photographic guide focusing on the ‘identification’ of edible and medicinal wild plants of the west. Tilford, his own photographer, uses 86 photographs to help you recognize the plants he included. Unlike many ‘flower’ identification guides Tilford shows us leaves, stems, flowers and sometimes even fruits. And in a helpful way…
This is a high quality field guide focusing on the identification of wild edible plants of the eastern half of the country. Peterson uses a mixture of 78 photographs, but mostly, high quality black and white line drawings to help you recognize the plants they included. Unlike many ‘flower’ identification guides Peterson shows us leaves,…
An important book for any wild food library. This is a valuable resource that focuses on both the identification as well as the uses of edible wild plants. Elias and Dykeman cover 220 plants, of which 20 are poisonous. Each plant they cover is represented by a range map and one to four full color…