Description
Foraging California: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods in California, by Christopher Nyerges.
Yes, it is possible to add nutrition to your meals from common plants that are often simply pulled and discarded! Many of the plants in this book are common European “weeds” that are in fact edible and tasty and nutritious. “Foraging California: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods in California,” is a Falcon Field Guide by Christopher Nyerges, released in May of 2014, part of the Falcon Press national Foraging series of books. This 244-page book is full color and is organized by plant family, according to the latest Jepson Manual (“Higher Plants of California”).
“Foraging California,” with a foreword by Paul Campbell (author of “Survival Skills of Native California”), is dedicated to Nyerges’ teacher and mentor, Dr. Leonid Enari, who emphasized that the way to learn about plants was to understand their familial relationships. Based on the methods learned by Dr. Enari, this book tells that there are many safe families, and that there are many more foods beyond what is in this illustrated book. The book includes a map of the state of California, showing the distribution of wild foods by environment. Also included are nutritional charts, a chart for wild bread and wild sugar sources, and Nyerges’ wild food test which he uses in the classroom. The book is useful for California and beyond.
