Forage, harvest, feast
Subtitle: a wild-inspired cuisine
By: Marie Viljoen
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9781603587501
Subjects: Cooking (Wild foods); Edible Wild plants
Description: In this groundbreaking collection of nearly 500 wild food recipes, celebrated New York City forager, cook, kitchen gardener, and writer Marie Viljoen incorporates wild ingredients into everyday and special occasion fare. Motivated by a hunger for new flavors and working with thirty-six versatile wild plants-some increasingly found in farmers markets, she offers deliciously compelling recipes for everything from cocktails and snacks to appetizers, entrées, and desserts, as well as bakes, breads, preserves, sauces, syrups, ferments, spices, and salts. From underexplored native flavors like bayberry and spicebush to accessible ecological threats like Japanese knotweed and mugwort, Viljoen presents hundreds of recipes unprecedented in scope. They range from simple quickweed griddle cakes with American burnweed butter to sophisticated dishes like a souffléed tomato roulade stuffed with garlic mustard, or scallops seared with sweet white clover, cattail pollen, and sweetfern butter. Viljoen makes unfamiliar ingredients familiar by treating each to a thorough culinary examination, allowing readers to grasp every plant's character and inflection.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Amaranth; title: American burnweed; title: Bayberry; title: Black cherry; title: Black locust; title: Burdock; title: Cattail; title: Common milkweed; title: Dandelion; title: Daylily; title: Elderflowers and elderberries; title: Fiddleheads; title: Field garlic; title: Fir; title: Garlic mustard; title: Ground elder; title: Honeysuckle; title: Japanese knotweed; title: Juniper; title: Lamb's-quarter; title: Mugwort; title: Nettles; title: Pawpaw; title: Persimmon; title: Pokeweed; title: Prickly ash; title: Purslane; title: Quickweed; title: Ramps; title: Serviceberry; title: Sheep sorrel; title: Spicebush; title: Sumac; title: Sweetfern; title: Wintercress; title: Wisteria; title: Wild menus; title: Recipes by course and diet.