I've long known that we didn't co-evolve with Big Macs, and nothing in our hereditary history prepared us for white sugar or hydrogenated fats. I've known that when we eat such foods, we betray our biochemical lineage and invite big trouble.

But I had thought that the wild edible plants with which we co-evolved are rarely to be found anymore, and when they are, they taste so terrible that they might as well be inedible. That's where I was wrong.

In this marvelous book, Steve Brill shows us how delicious and common wild foods can be. These wild plant foods are among the most concentrated forms of human nutrition on this planet, and now, with the help of this book, I can see that they can be among the most delicious.