Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes

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A delicious collection of essays, recipes, and practical plant information exploring Japan’s thriving culture of foraged foods.

From bracken to butterbur to “princess” bamboo, some of Japan’s most iconic foods are foraged, not grown, in its forests, fields, and coastal waters—yet most Westerners have never heard of them.

In this book, journalist Winifred Bird eats her way from one end of the country to the other in search of the hidden stories of Japan’s wild foods, the people who pick them, and the places whose histories they’ve shaped.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stone Bridge Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 30, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1611720613
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1611720617
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 0.8 x 7.9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,343,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #137 in Foraging #320 in Raw Cooking #465 in Japanese Cooking, Food & Wine
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