Language: Swedish
With the right knowledge, your ordinary forest walk can turn into an exciting hunt for natural food and wild flavors.
In this book Wild Pickled you get to know a variety of Swedish flowers, herbs, berries, mushrooms, leaves, roots and bulbs that can all be eaten and used in cooking. Learn to benefit from nature! Follow the example of the top chefs and bring nature into the kitchen. The Nordic flora has been in the spotlight in the last decade because of the chefs in what is usually called the new Nordic gastronomy. But it's not just top chefs who can cook with fir shoots, halic acid, thistle and fern. Many Swedes are used to picking mushrooms, but the repertoire can easily be expanded to include more of what forests and meadows have to offer.
Niki Sjölund has worked as a chef in Stockholm, but in recent years has chosen to focus on collecting and picking the edible wild plants that appear in forests, meadows, mountains and sometimes even at home in the garden. For Niki, the possibility of picking what nature produces without help from us humans has almost become a personal ideology.
- I want people to understand that there is so much more interesting to look at than the colorful screens of the phones. For me, the forest has become a place of discovery: what plants are there, how do you find and identify them, where do they thrive and what are their characteristics? The book collects facts about around 70 plants: where they can be found, their specific characteristics, tastes and appearances, possible risks of mixing and how they are best stored and refined.
Niki Sjölund grew up in southern Lapland with nature as her playground. A burning interest in nature's raw materials combined with work as a chef at, among others, Ekstedt and Gro in Stockholm has led to his own company that picks wild plants for a number of top Swedish restaurants.
Product information
Author: Niki Sjölund
Illustrator: Terése Karlsson
Designer: Jonas Cramby
Photographers: Knotan Tobias Arnerlöv, Niki Sjölund & Michael Krikorev
ISBN: 9789127150300
Language: Swedish
Released: 2017
Publisher: Nature Culture General literature
Pages: 176
Weight: 484 grams