Foraged Flavor: Finding Fabulous Ingredients in Your Backyard or Farmer's Market, with 88 Recipes: A Cookbook

I ordered this book for a friend who had mentioned foraging, but on seeing it for myself I bought another three copies (keeping one for me, of course) and even paying the much higher on-the-shelf price because I simply couldn't wait.The book is written with great passion and insight, but doesn't gush or in any way over-complicate the issue. The pair offer great advice, provide clear photographs and descriptions of edibles, and load the book with recipes that you will WANT to make (and will then be successful in). From the moment you crack the cover you will be met with a beautifully illustrated, edited and written resource that will have you craving to get out there to see just what's in your local area for you to take home for dinner. Truly inspiring.

Most writings that discuss edible wild foods do so from a survial viewpoint,but this book is totally different, it discusses the wild food that will not harm you but actually enhance your dining pleasure by turning ordinary food into gourmet food.The enthusiam of the authors is inspiring. I am eager to try the 'weeds' introduced in the book. I lent the book to my gardner (I do not get around well due to age related problems) and sheshe immediately started hunting in my back yard and others. We have cleared a small plot as a starter plot of weeds accessible to me.I also recommended the book to a botanist friend of mine whoi is fond of native plants.

Earlier this spring I found an app that tells you about weeds you can eat, and I realized I had some nice "crops" already in my yard. I wanted to branch out a little bit more into my surrounding environment for foraging, and this book helped me do it. I loved how it was broken down by season, and that it tells you how to forage sustainably, and even that there are some yummy things that we really shouldn't disturb unless we are cultivating them ourselves. Even with a lot of googling, there were 5 or so plants that I did not know were edible, and so delicious, until I read this book.

a good book

Recipes have very clear instructions, no fancy or hard-to-get ingredients. Great color pictures of plants to harvest. I'm looking forward to trying it now that Spring is here!

What an excellent idea for a cookbook. When my mother and I used to go for walks, we would literally find two or three wild grown herb or greens within a few yards of our home. If we ventured further, we'd find more. If I'd had this book then, I'd have recognized many more. Glad that I have this now that my own daughter and I can go foraging! The recipes in this book are easy to follow and really tasty. Also, if you don't have time to forage- the recipes are excellent on their own. I'm so thankful for this book!!!

Very informative

This is a very nice book. It is well illustrated and easy to read.There are plenty of easy to prepare recipes.I especially like the chapter divisions by seasons.The book is light enough to take with you into the field for reference.I am looking forward to putting foraging into practice.B. Harley

What an excellent book both in presentation and content....shall certainly use this supplier again

Recipes look great and I plan to try some out at a future date. However, IF you are buying this book, be sure to have a secondary source for plant identification. "Pictures" are more like sketches and are not at all useful for plant identification (This becomes an issue if you are going to actually eat the fruits of your foraging). For a book of this nature, I expected to see full colour photographs of every plant included. Moreover, although the author discusses the poisonous nature of Queen Anne's Lace lookalikes (and to be fair recommends only foraging the "seeds" from "nests" which lookalikes do not generate), I would have preferred it to be excluded given that, even in small amounts, Poison Hemlock can cause death and Giant Hogweed (admittedly taller than Queen Anne's lace though if you have no background you may not know this) can, I believe, cause blindness via touch.

I liked this book but there is room for improvement. The book has nice full color photos of some of the foraged plants discussed. It would be better to have photos of them all as the sketches just don't cut it for me at least. Also I'm partial to full color photos of the end result of all these professionally prepared recipes as there are none.

great info