Abundantly Wild
Collecting and Cooking Wild Edibles in the Upper Midwest

by Teresa Marrone
440 pages • Softcover • Full color throughout • 7 x 8 inches

Wild edibles are everywhere: forests, shelterbelts, parks, urban areas and even your own back yard. This books details how to find and prepare over 75 delicious wild foods that can be safely and sustainably harvested in the Upper Midwest.

A special Top Ten chapter features ten wild edibles that are abundant as well easy for beginners--ramps, fiddlehead ferns, cattails, blueberries, hickory nuts, morel mushrooms and more. The book goes on to cover familiar wild foods such as nettles, hazelnuts, pawpaws and a host of berries including blackberries, strawberries and raspberries, as well as less familiar--but equally delicious--wild foods such as hen of the woods mushrooms, sheep sorrel, maypops, Jerusalem artichokes and nannyberries. The book also includes the basics of safe and sustainable harvesting, as well as information on habitat types and seasons for foraging.

This big, beautiful book features:

• Full-color photos throughout to help you identify the right plant
• Hundreds of tested--and delicious--recipes to make the most of your wild harvest
• Includes complete, comprehensive index and bibliography
• Published in September, 2004 by Adventure Publications

Some recipes from Abundantly Wild are featured in the Fall 2006 edition of Edible Twin Cities. Here's a link to those recipes. If you're in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, please look for Edible Twin Cities; it's available at co-ops, natural foods stores, and Whole Foods.

Did you know you can eat cooked stinging nettles? (They're delicious, and really good for you, too!) Have you heard about maypops and pawpaws--two "tropical-tasting" fruits that grow in the Midwest? There are a host of delicious wild foods, just waiting to be gathered and prepared... nuts and fruits, greens and flowers (yes, many are edible)... roots, mushrooms and more! With Abundantly Wild, you'll learn about many wild foods you may have overlooked all your life. This book is written for the casual to moderate forager, who enjoys the outdoors and wants to add variety and taste to the menu.

Here are a few of the recipes in Abundantly Wild:

• Simple Morel Pizza
• Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes with Dandelion Greens
• Fiddlehead Pie
• Pan-Fried Walleye with Morel-Ramp Sauce
• Asparagus with Garlic Grits and Eggs
• Summer Sunshine Muffins with Cattail Pollen
• Blueberry or Huckleberry Syrup
• Chokecherry-Wild Grape Wine
• Grilled Giant Puffball Steaks
• Browned Butter-Hickory Nut Pie
• Currant-Cornmeal Tea Cakes
• Strawberry-Gooseberry Dessert Sauce
• Rice Pudding with Maypops
• Pork Chops Glazed with Mountain Ash
• Pawpaw Cheesecake

Maypops (the fruit of the wild passionflower)

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Check out the other outdoors-related cookbooks available from Northern Trails Press:

• NEW! The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
• The Back-Country Kitchen: Camp Cooking for Canoeists, Hikers and Anglers
• The Seasonal Cabin Cookbook

Also see the full-color wild game and fish cooking titles available from Northern Trails Press:

• NEW! Slow Cookers Go Wild! 100+ Recipes for Wild Game
• Preparing Fish & Wild Game
• America's Favorite Wild Game Recipes
• Venison Cookery
• Dressing & Cooking Wild Game
• The Saltwater Cookbook
• A World of Game Cooking (international-style recipes featuring wild game)

About the Author...

Few cooks are more comfortable working with wild edibles than Teresa Marrone, shown at left (in bright pink shirt) leading a wild foods foray during the 2004 Field to Family event in Iowa City (co-leader Brad Freidhof* is at right, holding a copy of Abundantly Wild). Teresa is the primary author or consultant on numerous other outdoor-related cookbooks (see our home page for information on some of these other cookbooks). She has been published in magazines including Outdoor Life, Boundary Waters Journal, the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer and Backyard Living, and is an experienced instructor who has taught numerous gourmet cooking classes in the upper Midwest as well as cooking seminars for the National Wild Turkey Federation and the prestigious Becoming An Outdoors-Woman program.

*Brad is a Naturalist for the Johnson County (Iowa) Conservation Board. He works at Kent Park outside of Iowa City, Iowa. Please visit Kent Park if you're in the area; it's a wonderful place to forage and ramble!

We regret that due to time constraints and copyright issues, we are unable to provide individual recipes from this book.
All photos copyright Teresa Marrone; may not be reproduced, copied or used in any way.