The Joy of Foraging

by Gary Lincoff

[nannah]

I loved this guidebook! Fantastic information packed into every single space it had.

I’ve recently gotten into foraging after reading the amazing The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, but until now I’ve just been reading about plants I’ve actually seen and already identified in my area. The Joy of Foraging is the first book I’ve picked up, and I don’t think I could’ve found a better one.

It’s broad, but it also has specific sections: how to forage (and how to be ethical about it); finding edible wild plants in the kitchen, in the marketplace, and in the wild; the edible wild plants growing at your feet; wild plant identification (the biggest section); recipes.

What I loved most was the inclusion of which culture (if any) uses the plant the most and for what, special precautions when it comes to eating certain plants, and if you need to be careful eating too much of one plant or one part of a plant. I do also wish there were more pictures, but every space on the page was being used, so it’s hard to really fault it for that.

I’m definitely going to reference this book often.