The Curious Kitchen Gardener: Uncommon Plants and How to Eat Them

This guide to 35 lesser-known edible plants, with growing advice and simple recipes, will appeal to gardeners and foodies interested in bringing novelty and variety to their gardens and plates.

From your garden into your kitchen and onto your plate

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.