The Forager s Guide to Wild Foods is an accessiblestart-to-finish guide that helps apprehensive foragers to identifyedible plants and avoid poisonous ones without getting bogged down inbotanical details. Here, A. D. Livingston not only explains whichnatural treats can be found in a variety of environments, but alsotakes the time to point out easy identification features of eachplant illustrated with color photographs and line drawings and warnagainst the relevant dangers. The delicacies range from nuts andberries to mushroom and vines, from watercress and seaweed to purslaneand desert fare, from wild onions to edible flowers, and more. Readerswill be drawn in by Livingston s amusing anecdotes and personalexperiences, and their mouths will water to read about the deliciousmeals they can gather and prepare.