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Article: Where the wild things are: foraging for the season's best-kept secrets.(Eating Right)
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- E Magazine
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- July 1, 2008
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In our 21st century supermarket culture, we've come to trust only packaged products. But just a century ago, plants we consider weeds--like purslane, sorrel and dandelions--were a regular part of the diet. Wild things grow all around us: in woods and fields, along roadsides, even in our backyards. Crabapples, nuts and berries; wild mushrooms; fiddlehead ferns, dandelions and chickweed are all delicious, nutritious and free for the taking.
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According to Peter Gail, Ph.D., author of The Dandelion Celebration (Goosefoot Acres Press), "The bias against wild edibles came after World War II, in part because the pesticide industry got ...