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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787835303321

Autore

Musselman Lytton John <1943->

Titolo

The quick guide to wild edible plants : easy to pick, easy to prepare / / Lytton John Musselman and Harold J. Wiggins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : The Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-4214-0872-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

641.3/03

Soggetti

Wild plants, Edible - East (U.S.)

Cooking (Wild foods) - East (U.S.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Wild plants as food -- Before you begin -- Emergency food -- How to use this book -- Guidelines for using the recipes -- About flavorings, sweeteners, and oils -- Beverages -- Recipes for failure -- Deadly harvest: plants you should avoid -- Poison ivy, Poison oak, Poison sumac -- Poison hemlock -- Mushrooms -- Nature's storehouse of edible plants -- Condiments -- Sassafras -- Field garlic -- Aperitifs -- Swamp bay -- Red spruce -- Greens -- Chicory -- Curly dock -- Glasswort -- Kudzu -- Stinging nettle -- Black walnut -- Starches -- American lotus -- Arrowhead -- Groundnut -- Nut sedge -- Oak -- Softstem bulrush -- Spring beauty -- Grains and grainoids used like grains -- Cane -- Manna grass -- River oats -- Yellow pond lily -- Flowers -- Black locust -- Cattail -- Orange day lily -- Redbud -- Sweets -- Indian strawberry -- Pawpaw -- Cordials -- Blueberries -- Mushrooms -- Oyster mushroom -- Chicken of the woods -- Puffballs.