Native American food plants : an ethnobotanical dictionary / Daniel E. Moerman.

"Based on 25 years of research that combed every historical and anthropological record of Native American ways, this unprecedented culinary dictionary documents the food uses of 1500 plants by 220 Native American tribes from early times to the present. Like anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman's previou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moerman, Daniel E.
Language:English
Published: Portland [Or.] : Timber Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Plants, Edible > North America > Dictionaries.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Food > Dictionaries.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Ethnobotany > Dictionaries.
Ethnobotany > North America > Dictionaries.
Genre:
Dictionaries.
Physical Description:455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Plant use by Native Americans
  • Organization of the information in Native American food plants
  • Catalog of plants.