W is for Wild Edible Plants

When all I could think of was Watercress, but had just written about Verdolagas which is quite similar, I asked Chef what he would suggest.  We went through all the "WILD" vegetables that might possibly be interesting...wild fennel is wonderful, looks like a really thick scallion and tastes like licorice, but I wrote about it.  Wild onion was already discussed.  I spoke about wild mushrooms in the Maitake post, so that left us with...oh yeah, the foraging all of the culinary students did in Italy.  They would go on a field trip to another region and the bus would pull over so the students could learn how to find some wild something or other.  Most of the time, it was herbs, but there are many vegetables to be found when you learn how to identify them.  I have found several sites for my readers to learn what, where and how to find them.  I hope you will take a moment and peruse them all.

http://www.wikihow.com/Find-Wild-Edible-Plants 

http://www.myfamilysurvivalplan.com/52-plants-in-the-wild-you-can-eat/

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/10/06/surviving-in-the-wild-19-common-edible-plants/

http://survivalathome.com/10-wild-plants-you-can-eat/