Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate by John Kallas Pictorial Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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eye-catching volume explores the animal kingdom through gorgeously detailed pen-and-ink illustrations that resemble vintage taxonomical plates

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Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate by John Kallas Pictorial Houghton Mifflin HarcourtWild spinach about 7 feet tall and fully mature. Well fed wild spinach is well branched and produces a huge quantity of seeds when mature. The leaves are still edible at this stage but are reduced in quality, taking on a somewhat off flavor. According to research on other mature plants, the leaves on these older plants retain most of their nutrients and phytochemicals as long as they are still green. (Left: The author stands in for perspective, 2006.)