Stalking the wild asparagus / by Euell Gibbons ; with illustrations by Margaret F. Schroeder ; including a remembrance of the author by John McPhee.
Record details
- ISBN: 0911469036
- ISBN: 9780911469035
- ISBN: 0911469044
- ISBN: 9780911469042
- Physical Description: xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: 50th anniversary ed.
- Publisher: Putney, Vt. : A.C. Hood ; [1987], ©1962.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Reprint. Originally published: New York : D. McKay, 1962. Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Some thoughts on wild food -- The Acorn : ancient food of man -- The Green Amaranth : invader from the tropics -- Wild apples and crab apples -- Arrowhead for Wapatoo : favorite food plant of American Indians -- The Jerusalem Artichoke -- Stalking the wild asparagus -- The sweet birch -- Blackberries and dewberries -- The Huckleberry and blueberry tribes -- Great burdock or wild gobo -- Calamus : confection, cure-all and salad plant -- Supermarket of the swamps : the common cattail -- Wild cherries -- Eat your chickory and drink it too -- Wild cranberries -- The official remedy for disorders -- New food from a familiar flower -- A salute to the elderberry : with a nod to scarlet sumac -- Using wild grapes -- Ground cherries for pies and preserves -- The groundnut or Indian potato -- Japanese knotweed : a combination fruit-vegetable -- Juneberries, shadberries or serviceberries -- Sweets from trees -- May apple, or American mandrake -- The common milkweed -- Mulberries : red and white -- The cult of the mycophagists -- Wild mustard : nature's finest health food -- The wild onion family -- The pawpaw : a tropical fruit come North -- The sugar-plum tree : persimmon -- Beating the pigs to the pigweeds -- Poke : wild potherb par excellence -- Purslane : India's gift to the world -- Raspberries and wineberries -- The sassafras for food and drink -- Economics of wild strawberries -- The Spring beauty or fairy spuds -- The common sunflower -- Wildwood teas -- Walnuts and hickory nuts -- The nose twister : king of wild salad plants -- Wild rice : epicurean delight -- Winter cress : the first with the most -- A wild winter garden in your cellar -- Wild honey -- How about the meat course -- Spinning for bluegills -- How to cook a carp -- The crayfish : a real luxury food -- On eating frog's legs -- Turtles and terrapins -- Herbal medicine from wild plants -- The proof of the pudding. |
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Subject: | Wild plants, Edible > United States. Wild plants, Edible > Canada. Cooking (Wild foods) |
Genre: | Cookbooks. Cookbooks. Cookbooks. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Pease Public Library | 581.632 GIBBONS
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34598000739196 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |