Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate

Edible Wild Plants provides what you really need to know to have your own wild food adventures. Whether a beginner or advanced wild food aficionado, gardener, chef, botanist, nutritionist, scientist, or a dieter with special needs, this book is for you. Author John Kallas gives you unprecedented details, maps, simple explanations, and multiple close-up photographs of every plant covered at every important stage of growth. You learn that a plant is not only edible but when, why, and how it is. He can turn you into a successful, well-fed, and happy forager anywhere in North America.Excellent! John Kallas doesn't just tell us: he shows us ... the important parts, growth stages, and preparation steps. ... Photos are of the highest quality found in any wild food book... Whether you are a neophyte or a veteran food gatherer, you will find this book fun, interesting, and immensely helpful.---Samuel Thayer, author of The Forager's HarvestJohn Kallas has rebranded foraging from "alternative roughage" to "five-star dining." No other wild foods book has this kind of in-depth text, mouthwatering recipes, or eye-popping pictures.---Thomas J. Elpel, author of Botany in a Day
Wild Gourmet takes you on a journey through the wonderful world of wild foods with loads of information on edible wild plants and other foragables that can be taken directly from your backyard straight to the dinner table. The first in a series of wild edibles cookbooks, Wild Gourmet focuses on salad greens and features a variety of plants-foundation greens, tart greens, pungent greens, and bitter greens-to create healthful and mouthwatering dishes that are both good for you and delivered straight from the earth. Each green has its own chapter following the plant from emerging seedling to end-of-life seed production, from foraging to food, from preparation to fine dining. Recipes, including one for marshmallows, are easy and fun to prepare. Chapters Include:What's Edible?AgriotrphytologyPlants Morph into FoodWild ParadiseWhy Eat Wild Food?Feed the PeopleForaging Tools and more!Author Bio: John Kallas has a doctorate in nutrition, a master's in education, and degrees in biology and zoology. He's a trained botanist, nature photographer, writer, researcher, and teacher. John has taught and trained thousands of people about wild foods all over North America, given hundreds of wild food presentations to a wide variety of groups, and amassed possibly the largest personal wild food library and photographic slide set in the country. Between newsletters, magazines, academic periodicals, and Internet publications, John has published over 100 articles on edible wild plants.