Leda Meredith is a lifelong forager and a certified ethnobotanist. She is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, specializing in edible and medicinal plants. The author of two previous books, Leda writes a foraging column for the James Beard Award-nominated group blog NonaBrooklyn. She is the Guide to Food Preservation for About.com, a New York Times Company. Leda leads wild edible plant tours throughout the Northeast for organizations including Slow Food, Green Edge, SideTour, and others. You can find out more about her upcoming tours and workshops at ledameredith.com.
Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plums to Wineberries
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$24.95
- ISBN-13: 9781604694178
- Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
- Publication date: 04/08/2014
- Series: Regional Foraging Series
- Pages: 308
- Sales rank: 44,346
- Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
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The Northeast offers a veritable feast for foragers. The woods, meadows, seashore, and even city neighborhoods are home to an abundance of delicious wild edible plants. Learn how to find spicy peppergrass seedpods in a sunny meadow to replace store-bought peppercorns. You can gather delicious cattail shoots for a spring salad and even tame some weedy, pungent garlic mustard in your next stir-fry. A passionate wild foods expert, Leda Meredith emphasizes local varieties and traditions, showing you what to look for, when and where to look, and how to gather in a responsible way. For foagers in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island, Ontario, and Quebec.
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Although I have over 200 books on foraging in my collection, I would rate this as one of the very best.”From the Publisher
“Although I have over 200 books on foraging in my collection, I would rate this as one of the very best.”
Library Journal
02/01/2014Ethnobotanist Meredith (The Locavore's Handbook: The Busy Person's Guide to Eating Local) is your guide to nature's bounty in the Northeast, defined here as running from Quebec down through Maryland. She begins with an introduction to foraging, including benefits, ethics, and sustainable practices, and follows with a season-by-season guide to foraging subdivided by habitat (meadows, woodlands, etc.). The bulk of the book are the profiles (alphabetical by common name) of over 100 wild and naturalized edible plants, including fruits, nuts, berries, greens, flowers, and roots. Each entry includes information on how to identify, gather, eat, and preserve the plant, plus at least one lovely full-color photo, tips for harvesting sustainably, and warnings about any toxic parts or look-alike plants. While Meredith's detailed descriptions will aid identification, the book would have been more helpful if it included photographs emphasizing distinguishing characteristics. The attractive images included do not show enough detail to facilitate positive identification. (This is a problem found in most foraging books.) Meredith mentions medicinal as well as culinary uses where applicable but with little detail. Readers interested in the medicinal properties of plants should consult a guide specific to that topic. VERDICT This manual is recommended, in spite of the above lack, for anyone in the Northeast who is interested in expanding their culinary horizons through foraging.—Janet Crum, Northern Arizona Univ. Lib., Flagstaff