Forage & Feast: Recipes for Bringing Mushrooms & Wild Plants to Your Table: A Cookbook

by Chrissy Tracey

Explore the bounty of the natural world through over 85 vegan recipes featuring foraged ingredients
 
“Forage & Feast embodies a commonsense, simple, and joyful approach to foraging and cooking.”—Michel Nischan, chef, author, and food-equity advocate

In Forage & Feast, experienced forager and chef Chrissy Tracey takes you on a journey to discover and collect plants and fungi. Use the identification guides and nature photographs to help you forage, then cook your way through fall, winter, spring, and summer with recipes featuring the wild ingredients. No matter where you live, you’ll be able to find recipe inspiration and universally useful foraging advice. From urban magnolia blooms and easy-to-find dandelions to golden chanterelles and sweet pawpaws, Chrissy shows you how to transform nature’s treasures into vegan recipes everyone will love. Discover mouthwatering dishes like:

Morel “Fried Chicken” Bites with Dandelion Hot Honey (Spring)

Pulled Jackfruit Sliders with Blackberry Barbecue Sauce (Summer)

Crabapple Crisp (Fall)

Shagbark Hickory Ice Cream (Winter)

Interwoven with stories from Chrissy’s own foraging and culinary experiences and accompanied by lush photography, Forage & Feast is the perfect introduction to finding food in the natural world and turning it into something both beautiful and tasty.

• ISBN10: 1984862243
• ISBN13: 9781984862242
• Publish Date: 9 April 2024
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Ten Speed Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 272
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781984862242

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally posted on my blog Nonstop Reader.

Forage & Feast is an accessible and beautifully photographed tutorial and recipe guide by Chrissy Tracey. Released 9th April 2024 by Penguin Random House on their Ten Speed Press imprint, it's 272 pages and is available in hardcover and ebook formats.

This guide is divided into seasonal sections. Each season includes foraging and plant lists with photos and info for IDing and foraging plants and fungi alongside recipes using nature's bounty.

Foraging guides include lots of different types of mushrooms, greens, berries, fruits, and flowers.

Recipes include an introduction, bullet list of ingredients, and step by step preparation instructions. Ingredient measures are provided in imperial (American) units only. Many of the ingredients will require both foraged items and access to a well stocked specialist grocer. 

Many (but not all) of the recipes are accompanied by full color photos, including preparation pictures. The photos are a high point of the book, and serving suggestions are very attractive and well styled. The author/publisher have also included an abbreviated resources and links lists for more information on foraging, as well as a cross-referenced index to the book's content.

Four stars. This would be an excellent choice for public library acquisition, home use, for smallholders and self sufficiency folks, and for gift giving. It's lovely to see a burgeoning appreciation for foraging and using local fresh ingredients.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.