The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir

The New Wildcrafted Cuisine is a stunning book by Pascal Baudar that explores incorporating wild foods into meals and redefines terroir. It offers creative recipes and instructions for preparing preserved foods, inspiring chefs and adventurous eaters to explore their bioregions and find unique ingredients.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 21 September 2023
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co

“This captivating book will leave you both salivating and dreaming. Pascal Baudar is venturing into crucial culinary territory.” —Sandor Ellix Katz, author of the New York Times bestseller The Art of Fermentation The New Wildcrafted Cuisine takes incorporating wild foods into your meals to a new, palate-bending level and in the process redefines terroir as we've come to know it. Award-winning author and "culinary alchemist" Pascal Baudar, a professional forager and wild food instructor, combines his research and in-depth knowledge of plants and landscapes with the fascinating and innovative techniques of a master food preserver. This beautifully photographed book offers up dozens of creative, seasonal recipes and instructions for preparing a variety of preserved foods, including Pickled Acorns, White Sage–Lime Cider, Wild Kimchi Spice, Wild Mustards, Currant Capers, Infused Salts with Wild Herbs, Pine Needle Vinegar, and much more. The New Wildcrafted Cuisine is sure to inspire both chefs and adventurous eaters to explore their own bioregions and find an astonishing array of plants and other materials that can be used in their own kitchens. “A beautiful book, loaded with recipes and techniques.” — Saveur “Pascals book contains some of the most unique and innovative ideas that you'll ever find for using wild flavors. Clear instructions accompany each recipe, along with striking photos of the ingredients and finished products.” —Samuel Thayer, author of The Foragers Harvest “[Baudar is] perhaps the prince of wildcrafted haute cuisine: He creates visually stunning, palate-pleasing recipes using innovative cooking processes and foraged ingredients”—NPRs “The Salt” “A gorgeously photographed collection of prose and recipes that's both survival manual and culinary inspiration.”

Weight: 1190g
Dimension: 204 x 254 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781645022299