Tag: herbal medicine

  • Wild Food Spring #3: A Feast of Weeds

    Wild Food Spring #3: A Feast of Weeds

    In this series, Dylan Gordon considers cookbooks, memoirs and fictions about wild, foraged foods. Reviewed in this essay: A Feast of Weeds by Luigi Ballerini, University of California Press, 2012. Field guidebooks often overwhelm me with their formidable erudition. First in each entry come the botanical descriptors, identifying features of leaf and root that mostly escape…