Are you ready to add bamboo, chicory, and sorrel to your garden? The Curious Kitchen Gardener profiles 33 often overlooked edibles that are exceptional for their ease of growing, versatility, taste, and resistance to insects and disease. Each profile includes color photographs, tips on growing, harvesting, and preparing, and a favorite recipe. With guidance for every season, The Curious Kitchen Gardener encourages you to see your garden, cooking and preserving practices, and household's diet as an integrated whole, a way of life, both perpetual and varying with the time of year. Calling upon decades of experience, Linda Ziedrich includes fascinating tales from history and around the world, as well as personal anecdotes. The result is the story of how and why an adventurous gardener cultivated a unique cuisine for herself and her family-and how you can do the same.