The Forager's Pantry: Cooking with Wild Edibles

by Ellen Zachos

A comprehensive and easy guide to bringing wild food indoors and new life to your cooking. Many home cooks want to experiment with wild foods and explore new flavors, but don’t know where to start― The Forager’s Pantry was written for you. This comprehensive and accessible book by Ellen Zachos takes readers through spices and herbs, flowers, fruit, greens, nuts and seeds, tubes and roots, and mushrooms, showing how some of the best ingredients come from nature itself. The Forager’s Pantry is for any home cook, chef, or foodie who wants to incorporate foraged flavors into their everyday cooking. This guide will start with individual ingredients before going into techniques, preservation, and master recipes, making foraged food both accessible and delicious. This book is for the adventurous home cook just waiting to get started―combine new foods with familiar staples, explore wild ingredients, and bring new life and excitement to your cooking.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Food, Reference, Cooking

240 pages, Hardcover

Published March 23, 2021

About the author

A graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe College, Ms. Zachos resides in New York.

Reviews

[E · Rating 3 out of 5]

Skimmed through while researching a project. Looking like promising recipes!

[Little]

A great, flexible recipe book with all kinds of tips and techniques for using up foraged harvests. And Zachos isn't shy about keeping consistent: The crabapple cake recipe from the fruits chapter uses acorn flour for the cake and spicebush berries for seasoning. What a fun resource!

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A guide to using your foraged finds, not finding or identifying them in the first place. These recipes are versatile enough to be adapted to a wide range of ingredients, including storebought. I plan to make better use of the field garlic all over my lawn!

[Grace Butler · Rating 5 out of 5]

i need to buy or get this book out again. I have begun to make infused custards. I would like to have Jerusalem cherries and acorn in my inventory. The mushroom section was wonderful but very little on how to use Puffballs.

[Kirbie Parker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought this for the recipes and I am NOT disappointed! There are plenty of other identification resources if you're left wanting for ID. I want to know different ways to use my finds. Love this book!

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Perhaps I am hoping for too much. I just did not find the recipes very inspiring either to forage or to cook.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

So much sugar... there are a handful of recipes I will try and everything looks delicious but I am trying to keep forsged foods as clean and healthy as possible

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super interesting. So many ingredients reminded me of food I had as a kid. I'm probably not going to turn into a forager any time soon, but I love how delicious and upscale the recipes were. The photos were gorgeous, too.