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The Wild, Wild Cookbook: A Guide for Young Wild-Food Foragers
Identifies edible plants that grow wild, provides more than sixty recipes--from acorn pancakes to backyard maple syrup--and gives instructions for building a rock oven
- GenresCookbooks
182 pages, Library Binding
Published January 1, 1982
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Jean Craighead George
204 books1,507 followersJean Craighead George wrote over eighty popular books for young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and the Newbery Honor book My Side of the Mountain. Most of her books deal with topics related to the environment and the natural world. While she mostly wrote children's fiction, she also wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods, and an autobiography, Journey Inward.
The mother of three children, (Twig C. George, Craig, and T. Luke George) Jean George was a grandmother who joyfully read to her grandchildren since the time they were born. Over the years Jean George kept one hundred and seventy-three pets, not including dogs and cats, in her home in Chappaqua, New York. "Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behaviour and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories."
The mother of three children, (Twig C. George, Craig, and T. Luke George) Jean George was a grandmother who joyfully read to her grandchildren since the time they were born. Over the years Jean George kept one hundred and seventy-three pets, not including dogs and cats, in her home in Chappaqua, New York. "Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behaviour and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories."
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November 13, 2023
Having grown up reading Jean Craighead George's books and adoring them to now, as an adult, foraging for my own food and medicine, I was delighted to discover this book. It is written clearly to be very accessible to a variety of regions and levels of involvement. The plants are found across the United States and include plants unique to the various regions, from New England to the Pacific Coast and Southwest deserts, so there is something for everyone. The descriptions are informative and the recipes vary from easy enough that children could do them with minimal supervision to others that are more labor intensive and need involvement rather than just supervision, like making acorn flour or maple syrup.
My only wish is that there were photographs instead of line drawings for identifying the plants, but the directions to always check with an experienced or professional forager or naturalist before eating anything is helpful in mitigating the risks of misidentification. I would use this book as a reference for preparation and another for identification if you, as the adult, are not already familiar, and when in doubt, throw it out.
My only wish is that there were photographs instead of line drawings for identifying the plants, but the directions to always check with an experienced or professional forager or naturalist before eating anything is helpful in mitigating the risks of misidentification. I would use this book as a reference for preparation and another for identification if you, as the adult, are not already familiar, and when in doubt, throw it out.
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