xiii, [3], 303, [1] pp. 8vo. Includes: A Remembrance of Euell Gibbons by John McPhee; Some thoughts on Wild Food; The Acorn: Ancient Food of Man; The Green Amaranth: Invader from the Tropics; Wild apples and crab apples; Arrowhead or Wapatoo: favorite food plant of American Indians; The Jerusalem Artichoke; Stalking the Wild Asparagus; The Sweet Birch; Blackberies 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 Chickorya nd 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 ar 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; Index.
