Author:
Kallas, John, 1952-
Imprint:Layton, Utah : Gibbs Smith, c2010.
Note: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
