The mighty burdock

Sometime last week, I shared with osprey_archer this image of Fergus the Forager, in his suit made of burdock leaves:



( osprey_archer , someone asked him in comments how he made it, and he said he did it by glueing the leaves to a preexisting cloth suit--so it's not like those leaves had to hold up on their own!)

His whole entry on burdock is fascinating. I knew about burdock root as a food, because I prepared it all the time in Japan. My favorite recipe is kimpira gobo, which I'll share before...