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The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America | 
 enlarge | Authors: Francois Couplan, James Duke
Publisher: McGraw-Hill or Keats Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 50150
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 570
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 0879838213
Dewey Decimal Number: 581.632097
UPC: 008798382131
EAN: 9780879838218
ASIN: 0879838213
Publication Date: November 11, 1998
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Product Description
From mushrooms to ferns, to trees and shrubs, nature offers a slew of healthy and tasty menu alternatives. We no longer have to limit ourselves to the 50 to 60 fruits and vegetables commonly grown in North America but can now learn and begin to enjoy more than 4,000 wild and delicious foods growing in our own back yards!Noted ethnobotanist Dr. Francois Couplan has been teaching the uses of various fruits, nuts, and grains world wide since 1975 and has published more than 13 books about plants in both French and German. He has worked with world-renowned chefs including Jean-Georges Vongerichten in New York, to bring wild plants to gourmet menus and has been cooking with hundreds of different plants for the past thirty years. This title is not only a guide to intriguing and palatable edible plants based on the author's personal experiences but a unique pathway to appreciating nature.
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 Not Much Help November 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I find that this book is quite useless unless you already have a superior knowledge of plants. The information contained in the book is vast but with no real way of identifying the individual plants it doesn't do you much good. All I can say is that you would have to go through it line by line and use the internet to get a picture of whatever plant is in question because what few pictures there are in the book are just hand drawn renditions and inadequate in displaying a recognizable image. Don't think you can just take this book into the woods and start grubbing on the local fauna.
 Comprehensive and Informative October 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent reference for food uses of thousands of common edible North American plant species. It is not a field guide -- i.e. it is not meant to help you identify plants -- it is a REFERENCE to help you determine the uses of plants you already know how to identify.
For the most part, the few pictures suck, but this doesn't matter -- just use this book along with a good field guide for your region (if you are in the Rockies, Pacific NW, the check out the Lone Pine field guides). If you are in the Eastern U.S., the Peterson guides can't be beat.
Anyhow, coupled with a good field guide, this book is extremely informative and useful.
The enyclopedia of edible plants of north america September 19, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got this book so I would learn how to servive off the land.
in case of hurricans or earthquakes or War. nanette
A hugh list August 29, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This tome has a real long list of just about every edible plant in North America. Although not very good at describing how to find or distinguish a particular plant.
Very good resource for basic plant information + April 25, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This plant book has a wealth of basic information.Yet,it could be more extensive and colorful.The book was first published back in the mid 1970s.There is a lot of ethnic historical information about each plant.But,not so much scientific information.Luckily,i am a student of some Latin studies and enjoyed reading the root words for each plant.If you have read other plant books in tandem with this one,it would help you out greatly.As a single book on plants,it's lacking on profound research data for each one.I found the book to be impractical as far as preparing a wild edible plant for medical or comsumptive use.There are throughly good examples of warnings on the dangers of improper uses of the edible plants.
If prepared correctly,then the plant can be a boon to the body.If carried out incorrectly,the cure can be as deadly as your aliment.I would recommend reading ,'Grieve's Herbal Encyclopedia A-Z',first.And use this book,as a back-up reference.This book suffers from trying to cover too much information in one volume.And straying into other ethnic areas,outside of the North America focus.Alma Hutchins' book on 'Plants of the Native Americans' ran into the same problem.Couplan's plant book is still worthy of inspection by anyone interested in edible native plant studies.
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