Southern California Food Plants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southern California Food Plants write by Charles W. Kane. This book was released on 2013-11. Southern California Food Plants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Best serving as an introduction to the wild/non domesticated (or domesticated yet feral) edible plant life of SoCal, readers will find Southern California Food Plants to be a much needed addition to a subject that continues to grow in interest and pertinence. Inhabitants of the greater Los Angeles to San Diego metro areas, then east to Palm Springs/the California state line, whom take outer urban excursions will surely benefit most from this guide. Essentially: throw this booklet into a backpack or glove box, head for the hills, and discover what wild plants can be consumed during times of leisure or necessity.Covering 50 wild southern California food plants.Edible uses are fully explored: preparation & utilization.Range & habitat are discussed assisting in identification.County by county maps & nearly 100 color photographs.Both common & scientific names.Concise synopsis of medicinal uses.Cautions list look-alike plants & toxicity concerns.Special notes include useful extras & important tidbits.
Edible and Useful Plants of California
Edible and Useful Plants of California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edible and Useful Plants of California write by Charlotte Bringle Clarke. This book was released on 1977. Edible and Useful Plants of California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to find, prepare, and cook delicious dishes from more than 200 types of wild plants - unique prize-winning recipes!
A Feast of Weeds
A Feast of Weeds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Feast of Weeds write by Luigi Ballerini. This book was released on 2012-10-29. A Feast of Weeds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A dazzling display of humanistic erudition, wit, and practical culinary advice. Ballerini's living herbarium reinitiates modern readers living in the concrete manswarm into the joys of foraging, gathering, and savoring herbs, flowers, and berries. Its wide-ranging historical context, a veritable documentary of poets and chroniclers of past and present, is a learned celebration of nature's bounty. Practical and flavorful recipes for each plant transport the 'weeds' from the field to the palate and enhance a narrative enriched by splendid complementary footnotes."—Albert Sonnenfeld, Series Director, Arts of the Table "Weeds indeed. A guide as witty as he is erudite, Luigi Ballerini has given us a remarkable compendium of the wild greens, along with their flowers and fruits, that people have foraged and eaten for millennia. Once the food of the poor, such ingredients are now in high demand. Gathering greens both familiar—such as mint or borage—and obscure—milk thistle and wallrocket—Ballerini draws upon a diverse cast of authors to attest or dispute their real or alleged medicinal powers. Just as important, he never neglects to suggest how they taste or to present fine recipes so that we can savor them for ourselves."—Carol Field, author of The Italian Baker "The scholar and poet Luigi Ballerini has given us a mouthwatering treasure of inventive Italian recipes for foraged wild plants adapted for the American locavore kitchen (including ten for borage alone, as well as nettle and purslane frittatas, and prickly pear risotto). This elegantly illustrated volume is peppered with humor and tastefully seasoned with a wealth of cultural, historical, and scientific sources and information. A Feast of Weeds is food for both the palate and the mind."—Jean-Claude Carron, University of California, Los Angeles
Edible and Poisonous Plants of Northern California
Edible and Poisonous Plants of Northern California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edible and Poisonous Plants of Northern California write by . This book was released on 1999. Edible and Poisonous Plants of Northern California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is filled with fascinating facts, recipes and stories about common plants found growing wild in northern California. Every vacant lot, park, open space and empty field contains some of the characters in this book.Get ready to meet a variety of common weeds with uncommon stories. There will be sinister plants with deadly reputations, and friendly vegetables disguised as weeds. Over fifty detailed drawings will help you to recognize some of the plant personalities. And this is important, because after reading you will want to get off that couch and meet these plants.These weeds grow all around, from Sacramento to San Francisco, Monterey to San Jose. we are surrounded by a silent plant community. Learn what it has to say to you between the covers of this book.
Edible Wild Plants
Edible Wild Plants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edible Wild Plants write by Thomas S. Elias. This book was released on 2009. Edible Wild Plants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a season-by-season guide to the identification, harvest, and preparation of more than two hundred common edible plants to be found in the wild.
