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Book

The curious kitchen gardener : uncommon plants & how to eat them

Call Number

  • 635 Z65 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, [2025]

Physical Description

267 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"Enjoy a whole new tasty cuisine using unexpected ingredients you can find in your own garden, from a Master Food Preserver and Gardener. The Curious Kitchen Gardener is for cooks and gardeners interested in bringing novelty and variety into their lives and homes. It follows each season of planting and harvesting--featuring nearly 35 often overlooked edibles, with illustrations, and a delicious recipe for each, encouraging us to see our gardens as an integrated whole and a year-round practice. Calling upon decades of Master Gardener and Master Food Preserver experience, Linda Ziedrich includes fascinating cultural context and personal connections to each plant. The result is the story of how and why an adventurous gardener cultivated a unique cuisine for herself and her family--and how you can too"--

Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Sweet violets
  • Radical ways with radishes
  • Angelica, bitter and sweet
  • Bamboo for dinner
  • Collards for year-round greens
  • Blue-fruited honeysuckle
  • Strawberries from the woods
  • Walnuts, green and ripe
  • Sour sorrel
  • Kale buds and collard tops
  • Artichokes, succulent thistle buds
  • Leaves of the vine
  • Petite, perpetual garlic chives
  • Green garbanzos
  • Magenta-leafed orach
  • The singular makah ozette potato
  • The onion that walks
  • Black and blue tomatoes
  • The longest beans
  • Shiso, red and green
  • The mucilaginous melon
  • Maize for meal
  • Chicory reborn
  • Homemade chicory coffee
  • The many joys of fennel
  • Tasting lavender
  • Scarlet runners for winter meals
  • Sweet parsnips
  • Poppies for seeds
  • Beets for greens
  • Forgotten but flavorful quince
  • Oca, the tart little tuber
  • Jerusalem fartichokes
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Seed and plant suppliers
  • Index
  • About the author.

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