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Cornucopia II: A Source Book of Edible Plants by Stephen Facciola

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, plenty of information related to wild foods within all the other content. Wild foods that have been cultivated at one time or another (and there are many) are included. ...

October 6, 2015

Native American Ethnobotany by Daniel E. Moerman

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 gives summarized accounts of uses for 4,029 plants from 1,200 genera, used in 44,691 ways in 291 different Native American societ...

October 6, 2015

The Encyclopedia of Edible Wild Plants of North America by François Couplan

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 experiences. This is sort of the grand son, or really grand nephew, of the 1919 government document "Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants". The differences being ...

October 5, 2015