Wild Edible Plants of Western North America or The Edible Flower Garden

Wild Edible Plants of Western North America, Vol. 1

Author: Donald R Kirk

A husband and wife team with Donald Kirk author and Janice Kirk illustrator. Still a popular book, but in its heyday, it kept us hopping to print more books than went out the door! Nearly 2000 species of wild edible plants found in the western United States and in southwestern Canada and northwestern Mexico are covered. Various methods of preparing wild foods and warnings to avoid poisonous plants are given.

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The Edible Flower Garden

Author: Rosalind Creasy

The Edible Flower Garden provides a comprehensive guide to selecting and growing flowers that can be used for cookery, both as garnishes and as ingredients. Creasy talks with Alice Waters, chef of Chez Panisse, and acknowledged inventor of California cuisine.

Rosalind Creasy, a resident of Los Altos, California, is a landscape designer and leading authority on appropriate gardening techniques as well as a widely published garden writer and popular lecturer. Creasy specializes in residential landscapes that include edible, native, and drought-tolerant plants. She is a winner of the Garden Writers of America's award for excellence, and her articles have appeared in Organic Gardening, Family Circle, Woman's Day, Country Living Gardener, and Horticulture magazines. In addition to Cooking from the Garden, Creasy is the author of Earthly Delights: Twelve Distinctive Theme Gardens, The Gardener's Handbook of Edible Plants and a book for young gardeners, Blue Potatoes, Orange Tomatoes. Her Complete Book of Edible Landscaping received a Garden Writers Association of America's award and has become a contemporary gardening classic.

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The Edible Garden Series will satisfy a wide spectrum of readers. Food lovers will applaud the series for its information and inspiration in putting fresher and tastier produce on their tables. And enthusiasts will applaud Creasy for bringing us back to the most important food source of all: our gardens.