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29 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"Watermelons are fruits. Cabbages are leaves. Walnuts are seeds. Carrots are roots. People eat many parts of plants. Even flowers!--
A young boy explains the different plants and parts of plants that people commonly eat, from roots and tubers to fruits and vegetables.
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Keep your lawn and eat it too - Foodscaping will show you how to grow food without giving up your view. Foodscaping is what it sounds like - a combination of landscaping and food. This gardening resource is chock-full of real-world examples, photos, and advice so that even an average Joe homeowner and gardener can grow food without sacrificing either their lawn or their home's appearance to do so. While edible and ornamental aren't always synonymous,...
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"Some are roots. Some are fruits. Some are even flowers. What do you know about plants we eat? With this book, you can become an expert. Feel like a pro with exciting photos, expert facts, and fun challenges. Can you name a food that is a plant stem or a plant seed? Try it! Then see if you can pass the Expert Quiz!"--
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143 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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It's the prettiest trend in baking, and Sear shows how to use edible flowers and herbs to decorate your cakes and bakes. She shows how to select and use fresh edible flowers, as well as how to preserve them through drying, crystalising, pressing and suspending in sugar. Readers choose treats such as a cupcake wreath, a floral krispie cake topper, and even edible faux frames topped with pressed flowers. -- adapted from back cover and perusal of book...
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469 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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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,...
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xvii, 227 pages : illustrations (color) ; 30 cm
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"Featuring over 100 photographs that Fike has selectively colorized to highlight the comestible part of the plant. While the images initially appear to be scientific illustrations or photograms from the dawn of photography when plants were placed directly on sensitized paper and exposed under the sun, a closer look reveals, according to Liesl Bradner of the Los Angeles Times, "haunting [and] eerily beautiful" photographs. Beyond instilling wonder,...
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xx, 311 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"This illustrated cookbook celebrates the abundance at farmers' market and local grocery store yet to be discovered by the everyday cook. From mustard and kumquats to nettles, fava leaves, sunchokes and more, the blossoms, berries, leaves, and roots featured in Dandelion & Quince are simple foods that satisfy our need for a diversity of plant life in our diets, grown with care and prepared by our own hands for our families and communities, "--Amazon.com....
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Edible wild plants, mushrooms, fruits, and nuts grow along roadsides, amid country fields, and in urban parks. All manner of leafy greens, mushrooms, and herbs that command hefty prices at the market are bountiful outdoors and free for the taking. But to enjoy them, one must know when to harvest and how to recognize, prepare, and eat them. The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts provides everything one needs to know about...
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xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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A delightful book on the recognition, gathering, preparation and use of the natural health foods that grow wild all around us. The lore contained here can turn every field, forest, swamp, and vacant lot and roadside into a health-food market with free merchandise.
An imaginative approach to cooking, offering numerous recipes for main dishes and accompaniments made from wild berries, roots, nuts, and leaves.
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221 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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In addition to learning to cook foraged and farmed foods, readers will explore the basics of wild plant harvesting (including identification and ethical best practices) while enjoying humorous anecdotes from Connoleys years of remote gathering. Photographer Jay Hemphill also presents stunning images that capture the bounty of North America.
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