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Author Zachos, Ellen.

Title Backyard foraging : 65 familiar plants you didn't know you could eat / Ellen Zachos.

Publication Info. North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2013]
�2013

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  581.632 Zac    ---  Available
Description 239 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index.
Contents Getting started : identifying habitats in the 'hood, ensuring safety, ethical harvesting -- Harvest with care : you don't have to sacrifice your scenery; picking shoots and young foliage; foraging flowers, fruits, and nuts; digging roots and tubers; timing for taste -- Grazing greens : tasty leaves and stems -- The fruits of nature's labor : edible flowers and fruits -- Nature's granola : nuts and seeds -- Hidden treasure : roots, tubers, and rhizomes -- Friendly fungi -- Superstars -- You wouldn't do this if it didn't taste good : recipes and storage advice -- Freezing -- Dehydration -- Syrups, jams, and jellies -- Booze -- Baked goods -- Savory dishes -- Fruity miscellany -- Resources and recommended reading -- Books about wild edible plants -- Foraging books with blogs -- Mushrooms -- Vendors of mushroom-growing supplies -- Food preparation.
Subject Wild plants, Edible -- Identification.
Cooking (Wild foods)
ISBN 9781612120096 (pbk.) : $16.99
1612120091 (pbk.) : $16.99

 
    
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