The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants: Easy to Pick, Easy to Prepare
The book is witty and full of commonsense. It is a jolly good read for anyone.(Jane ManasterPortland Book Review)The fact that as many as 50 books explain how to find, collect, and prepare wild plants for a meal speaks to the popularity of the endeavor. Whether this is your passion or merely something you might be interested in learning about, check outThe Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants... Should I ever get a craving for stinging nettle omelet or black locust fritters, I will know exactly which wild edible plant book to look in.(Whit GibbonsThe Aiken Standard)Drawing from a lifetime of foraging experience, Musselman and Wiggins expand the reader's food gathering repertoire with simple recipes and a fascinating assortment of plants largely overlooked by the wild food literature.(Samuel Thayer, author ofThe Forager's Harvest)Dr. Musselman is a passionate botanist. Walking among plant life makes him very happy, which means he is happy most of the time, except when riding in a car stuck in a long tunnel. He will stop people on the street to tell them some great news from the plant world.(Garrison Keillor)