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…