Happyreader's review
Food Plants of the World
by Ben-Erik van Wyk
Happyreader's review
Food Plants of the World by Ben-Erik van Wyk
Happyreader's review
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food-and-drink,
reference
Apparently, we're not eating enough of the plants that are edible. Thie book hopes to change that by highlighting a vast array of 354 edible plants to expand our culinary palate. And those 354 plants are limited to foods that can be found in a produce market - somewhere. I'm assuming, for instance, that you'll have to leave Illinois to find jaboticaha (myrciaria cauliflora). It's a fruit from Brazil which supposedly tastes like a mixture of grape, litchi, and blackcurrent. Let me know if you know of a Chicago Brazilian with a jaboticaha connection because I'd love to try that!!
The information isn't deep but it is broad. I love the multiple pictures for each plant showing the plant in its natural habitat along with the different parts of the plant we could eat. Along with its photo montage, each plant, listed in order of its fancy scientific name with common name subheads, has a description, origin and history, parts used, cultivation and harvesting, uses and properties, nutr...more
The information isn't deep but it is broad. I love the multiple pictures for each plant showing the plant in its natural habitat along with the different parts of the plant we could eat. Along with its photo montage, each plant, listed in order of its fancy scientific name with common name subheads, has a description, origin and history, parts used, cultivation and harvesting, uses and properties, nutr...more
