{"id":22719,"date":"2019-06-30T13:54:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T11:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22719"},"modified":"2019-11-13T15:05:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:05:40","slug":"holmboes-gratis-mat-av-ville-planter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22719","title":{"rendered":"Holmboe’s Gratis mat av ville planter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jens Holmboe’s book “Gratis mat av ville planter” (Free food from wild plants) from 1941 is still my favourite Norwegian book on wild food as it is well researched and includes a number of interesting anecdotes. I’ve had a photocopy of the whole book for many years (I think I borrowed it from my friend Jan Erik Kofoed and copied it at work in the 1980s). I finally own a copy of the book from the 2016 reprint!\u00a0 It had somehow passed me by that it was available! Thanks to Hanne Edvardsen from Trondheim Nyttevekstforening who gave me a copy at the recent Ringve Botanical Garden Open Day!<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, it does include the hogweeds \/ bj\u00f8rnekjeks (Heracleum) including giant Troms\u00f8palme (Heracleum persicum, source of the spice golpar and a vegetable in Iran). However, I don’t think he could have tasted the latter when he wrote: “….skal v\u00e6re s\u00e5 besk at den neppe er \u00e5 anbefale til folkemat” (…is apparently so bitter that it can hardly be recommended as food). Similarly, he mentions that Heracleum sibiricum is sometimes recommended for soups , together with other herbs….and it is likely to be too strong tasting for most people.<\/p>\n