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Urban foraging : find, gather, and cook 50 wild plants /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, Inc., 2022Copyright date: 2022Description: 234 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781643260839
  • 1643260839
Other title:
  • Find, gather, and cook 50 wild plants
  • Find, gather, and cook fifty wild plants
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 581.6/32 23/eng/20211213
LOC classification:
  • QK98.5.U6 R68 2022
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"--
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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 bibliographical references and 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"--

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Library Journal Review

The publisher and author provide a warning before this book even begins that ingesting wild plants and fungi is a risky undertaking, a point that Rose (Midwest Medicinal Plants) continues to stress in her introduction, which highlights a range of pollutants and toxins that could be on even properly identified items. With that forager-beware caveat in place, Rose offers a quick guide to botany basics, a forager's tool kit, and the legal rules of foraging. The rest of the book is devoted to the most common urban plants the very brave and deeply informed reader might pick, from apples to yarrow. Along the way there are blackberries, garlic mustard, peppermint, raspberries, and wild carrots, on top of less common choices such as ground ivy and daylily. Each entry offers a photo, brief identification and gathering information, and notes on its culinary uses; many also have recipes. VERDICT Those new to foraging will not find sufficient guidance to pick with confidence. Instead, readers will wish they could take a walk with the deeply knowledgeable Rose and learn from her in the field.--Neal Wyatt

Publishers Weekly Review

Herbalist Rose (Midwest Medicinal Plants) shares in this encyclopedic outing tips for city-dwellers looking to forage edible plants. Each plant profile includes details about when and how to harvest, plus recommendations for uses. Rose covers common fare such as apples and mint, as well as lesser-known varieties, including hyssop (a "classic" cold remedy) and daylilies (which "can be stuffed with a soft cheese... then fried in butter like stuffed squash blossoms"). There's a recipe for each plant, among them mugwort bitters, autumn olive BBQ sauce, and wild garlic flatbreads. Rose cautions against searching along railroad tracks, as they're "known to be high in arsenic, which can be absorbed into plants," and advises that it's important to know what one is eating, since "poisoning is both possible and a drag," though, unfortunately, the work is light on identification tips. Seasoned gatherers will find plenty of clever tricks, though, and Rose skillfully mixes anecdotes with fast facts about everyday plants--"Japanese knotweed is at the top of nearly all invasive-plant Most Wanted lists," for example. Home cooks ready to branch out will find this a resource worth returning to. (Aug.)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Lisa M. Rose is an herbalist and forager with a background in anthropology and a professional focus on community health. Her interest in ethnobotany and herbal medicine has taken her to study plants, people, health, and their connection to place internationally. Rose leads foraging plant walks and teaches classes on edible and medicinal wild plants. She forages for her own family, herbal apothecary, and community herbalism practice.

Miriam Doan is a visual storyteller and creative producer who hails from the Great Lakes region. Throughout her career as a photographer and producer, she has documented global healthcare initiatives to capture impact and inspire action. To begin work in her own community, she began an urban flower farm in Chicago, offering a one-mile bouquet to seasonal subscribers during the summer. Here, she discovered a love for capturing movement, connection, design, and color in the natural world. She continues her work in health care, while deepening her discovery of nature and our continual desire to rearrange it. Recent work featured in: The Guardian, Now This, National Geographic, BBC World News, ABC News, New City, Chicago Reader, Chicago Social, NPR, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Online Journal, Rotary.org, The Rotarian Magazine and Rotary International World Polio Day (2018 Shorty Award), Global One: Women on the Frontlines Photography Exhibit & Artist Panel, Asia House - London, Seattle K5, Atlanta Journal., CNET, ONE LAST PUSH campaign.

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