The Wild Food Trailguide

This new edition of a book that Explorer magazine called "an indispensable field guide to the most common edible plants of North America" offers 85 plants that are not only edible, they are truly worth eating. This guide is as much fun to browse as it is to use. Many of the plants we call weeds were brought here by settlers. Our grandparents still knew where to find them, how to use them and when to harvest. They are not confined to the wilderness but can be found in your backyard or along roadsides -- even on urban expressway margins and vacant lots. More than 25 uses -- from salads and seasonings to jams and pies -- can add variety to meals and really cut rising food costs. This guide makes harvesting nature's free bounty sure, safe and easy. It is, as noted by the New York Times, "extremely well organized." Each plant is described in clear, nontechnical terms and each is illustrated. The text clearly spells out the part of the plant that is edible, when to collect it and how to prepare it.