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001 ocm16227916
003 OCoLC
005 20210524054520.0
008 870624r19871962vtua 001 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)16227916$z(OCoLC)45440379
037 $bAlan C Hood & Co, Po Box 775, Chambersburg, PA, USA, 17201, (717)2670867$nSAN 270-8221
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050 00 $aQK98.5.U6$bG52 1987
082 00 $a581.6/32$219
100 1 $aGibbons, Euell.
245 10 $aStalking the wild asparagus /$cby Euell Gibbons ; with illustrations by Margaret F. Schroeder ; including a remembrance of the author by John McPhee.
250 $a25th anniversary ed.
260 $aPutney, Vt. :$bA.C. Hood ;$aWoodstock, Vt. :$bDistributed by the Countryman Press,$c[1987], ©1962.
300 $axiii, 303 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aReprint. Originally published: New York : D. McKay, 1962.
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aA delightful book on the recognition, gathering, preparation and use of the natural health foods that grow wild all around us. The lore contained here can turn every field, forest, swamp, and vacant lot and roadside into a health-food market with free merchandise.
520 $aAn imaginative approach to cooking, offering numerous recipes for main dishes and accompaniments made from wild berries, roots, nuts, and leaves.
505 0 $aSome thoughts on wild food -- The Acorn : ancient food of man -- The Green Amaranth : invader from the tropics -- Wild apples and crab apples -- Arrowhead for Wapatoo : favorite food plant of American Indians -- The Jerusalem Artichoke -- Stalking the wild asparagus -- The sweet birch -- Blackberries and dewberries -- The Huckleberry and blueberry tribes -- Great burdock or wild gobo -- Calamus : confection, cure-all and salad plant -- Supermarket of the swamps : the common cattail -- Wild cherries -- Eat your chickory and drink it too -- Wild cranberries -- The official remedy for disorders -- New food from a familiar flower -- A salute to the elderberry : with a nod to scarlet sumac -- Using wild grapes -- Ground cherries for pies and preserves -- The groundnut or Indian potato -- Japanese knotweed : a combination fruit-vegetable -- Juneberries, shadberries or serviceberries -- Sweets from trees -- May apple, or American mandrake -- The common milkweed -- Mulberries : red and white -- The cult of the mycophagists -- Wild mustard : nature's finest health food -- The wild onion family -- The pawpaw : a tropical fruit come North -- The sugar-plum tree : persimmon -- Beating the pigs to the pigweeds -- Poke : wild potherb par excellence -- Purslane : India's gift to the world -- Raspberries and wineberries -- The sassafras for food and drink -- Economics of wild strawberries -- The Spring beauty or fairy spuds -- The common sunflower -- Wildwood teas -- Walnuts and hickory nuts -- The nose twister : king of wild salad plants -- Wild rice : epicurean delight -- Winter cress : the first with the most -- A wild winter garden in your cellar -- Wild honey -- How about the meat course -- Spinning for bluegills -- How to cook a carp -- The crayfish : a real luxury food -- On eating frog's legs -- Turtles and terrapins -- Herbal medicine from wild plants -- The proof of the pudding.
650 0 $aWild plants, Edible$zUnited States.
650 0 $aWild plants, Edible$zCanada.
650 0 $aCooking (Wild foods)
650 7 $aCooking (Wild foods)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01753216
650 7 $aWild plants, Edible.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01175127
651 7 $aCanada.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204310
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 $aCookbooks.$2lcgft
655 7 $aCookbooks.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01752725
655 4 $aCookbooks.
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938 $aBrodart$bBROD$n43637566$c$17.50
938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$n87016933$c$12.95
938 $aYBP Library Services$bYANK$n1049955
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948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 302 OTHER HOLDINGS