--- product_id: 25983986 title: "The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir" price: "€ 166.11" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/25983986-the-new-wildcrafted-cuisine-exploring-the-exotic-gastronomy-of-local store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # seasonal wild ingredients 400+ pages of expert knowledge 400+ vivid photos The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir **Price:** € 166.11 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🌿 Elevate your palate with nature’s hidden gourmet secrets! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir - **How much does it cost?** € 166.11 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/25983986-the-new-wildcrafted-cuisine-exploring-the-exotic-gastronomy-of-local) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Seasonal Foraging Guide:** Explore four distinct seasons of wild ingredients with detailed stories and tips. - • **Visual Feast for Foodies:** Immerse yourself in hundreds of drool-worthy, professionally shot images. - • **Culinary Alchemy Unleashed:** Master wildcrafted haute cuisine with innovative recipes that redefine terroir. - • **Global Inspiration, Local Terroir:** Transform your kitchen with wild foods and techniques adaptable worldwide. - • **Preservation & Fermentation Mastery:** Learn cutting-edge techniques for pickling, fermenting, and infusing wild flavors. ## Overview The New Wildcrafted Cuisine by Pascal Baudar is a 400+ page, beautifully photographed culinary guide that explores wild foods through seasonal foraging, preservation, and fermentation techniques. Combining expert knowledge with innovative recipes, it inspires chefs and adventurous eaters to rediscover local terroir and create extraordinary dishes using wild ingredients. ## Description “This gorgeous book will make you salivate and dream. Pascal Baudar is exploring important culinary terrain.” ―Sandor Ellix Katz, author of the New York Times bestseller The Art of Fermentation The New Wildcrafted Cuisine takes incorporating wild foods into your meals to a new, palate-bending level and in the process redefines terroir as we’ve come to know it. Award-winning author and “culinary alchemist” Pascal Baudar, a professional forager and wild food instructor, combines his research and in-depth knowledge of plants and landscapes with the fascinating and innovative techniques of a master food preserver. This beautifully photographed book offers up dozens of creative, seasonal recipes and instructions for preparing a variety of preserved foods, including Pickled Acorns, White Sage–Lime Cider, Wild Kimchi Spice, Wild Mustards, Currant Capers, Infused Salts with Wild Herbs, Pine Needle Vinegar, and much more. The New Wildcrafted Cuisine is sure to inspire both chefs and adventurous eaters to explore their own bioregions and find an astonishing array of plants and other materials that can be used in their own kitchens. “A beautiful book, loaded with recipes and techniques.”― Saveur “Pascal’s book contains some of the most unique and innovative ideas that you’ll ever find for using wild flavors. Clear instructions accompany each recipe, along with striking photos of the ingredients and finished products.” ―Samuel Thayer, author of The Forager’s Harvest “[Baudar is] perhaps the prince of wildcrafted haute cuisine: He creates visually stunning, palate-pleasing recipes using innovative cooking processes and foraged ingredients”―NPR’s “The Salt” “A gorgeously photographed collection of prose and recipes that’s both survival manual and mission statement.”― Los Angeles Times Review: I drool in the woods. - I studied for a hot minute under Pascal back when I was spending time in Los Angeles and was always impressed by both his deep knowledge of the land around us and his incredibly accessible teaching skills. After a couple years lapping up the beautiful photographs he regularly shared online I was greatly anticipating this book. It does not disappoint. The book is big (>400 pgs) and full of hundreds of drool-worthy photos. It is divided into four main sections: Winter - The Forest Time; Spring - The Greens Time; Summer - The Berries and Fruits Time; and Fall - The Seeds Time. Each section contains multitudes of stories and anecdotes, local history, identification and foraging tips, cooking and fermentation instructions, and of course, the recipes. Ahhh, the recipes. I am convinced that Baudar and his partner-in-crime, chef-photographer Mia Wasilevich, could one day very soon give René Redzipi a run for his money. Baudar creates dishes that capture the flavor of place like no other wild food book I've ever read. Individual mountains inspire multi-course feasts. A valley might create a singular vinegar. Examples from the book include: Beef Stone-Cooked in Forest Floor, Candy Cap Mushroom Beer, Basic Wild Kimchi, Chaparral Roasted Quail, Blueberry-Fennel-Mugwort Soda, Nasturtium and Watercress Hot Sauce, Cactus Pad and Lime Mint Paletas with Bay-Infused Tequila Film and Lerp (ants!) Sugar and Australian Bushberries, and Stinging Nettle Beer. Baudar's enthusiasm for his work is apparent. This is no attempt to capitalize on a trend for him. It is an art and his studio is the wilderness of Southern California. I only hope that this book doesn't make his classes book so far in advance that I can never get in on another one. If you enjoy food and have a sense of wonder, look no further for the satiation of both. Review: Couldn't ask for more! - I've been eagerly awaiting this book for years before I learned that someone was actually writing it! There are a few other wonderful books out there on California foraging... Many are simply identification books, and some have a bit more information on medicinal uses, but they all lacked the culinary inspiration that Pascal delivers. This is the only book with truly gourmet recipes & drool-worthy photography. Many a 9-year-old has been scared away from wild foods after reluctantly sampling flavorless acorn mush on school field trips... This book will reawaken your innate curiosity about the truly exquisite plants that grow all around you. This book does include many alluring recipes, but more than that, it lays a foundation for your own experimentation with wild foods. Pascal provides crystal-clear tutorials along with his recipes for those who would like more guidance on various techniques such as brewing, fermenting, preserving, etc. This book is a MUST for herbalists, plant lovers, and epicureans. Even persnickety native plant people might appreciate his liberal use of many invasive species and his careful use of some native ones. Although his recipes center on plants found in California, his perspective & techniques will inspire wild foods enthusiasts anywhere in the world. Thank you Pascal for sharing your expertise & vision with all of us! ## Features - Ships from Vermont ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,709,941 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #118 in Dehydrator Recipes #341 in Herb, Spice & Condiment Cooking #484 in Canning & Preserving (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 361 Reviews | ## Images ![The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81sF72NqKtL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I drool in the woods. *by M***W on March 21, 2016* I studied for a hot minute under Pascal back when I was spending time in Los Angeles and was always impressed by both his deep knowledge of the land around us and his incredibly accessible teaching skills. After a couple years lapping up the beautiful photographs he regularly shared online I was greatly anticipating this book. It does not disappoint. The book is big (>400 pgs) and full of hundreds of drool-worthy photos. It is divided into four main sections: Winter - The Forest Time; Spring - The Greens Time; Summer - The Berries and Fruits Time; and Fall - The Seeds Time. Each section contains multitudes of stories and anecdotes, local history, identification and foraging tips, cooking and fermentation instructions, and of course, the recipes. Ahhh, the recipes. I am convinced that Baudar and his partner-in-crime, chef-photographer Mia Wasilevich, could one day very soon give René Redzipi a run for his money. Baudar creates dishes that capture the flavor of place like no other wild food book I've ever read. Individual mountains inspire multi-course feasts. A valley might create a singular vinegar. Examples from the book include: Beef Stone-Cooked in Forest Floor, Candy Cap Mushroom Beer, Basic Wild Kimchi, Chaparral Roasted Quail, Blueberry-Fennel-Mugwort Soda, Nasturtium and Watercress Hot Sauce, Cactus Pad and Lime Mint Paletas with Bay-Infused Tequila Film and Lerp (ants!) Sugar and Australian Bushberries, and Stinging Nettle Beer. Baudar's enthusiasm for his work is apparent. This is no attempt to capitalize on a trend for him. It is an art and his studio is the wilderness of Southern California. I only hope that this book doesn't make his classes book so far in advance that I can never get in on another one. If you enjoy food and have a sense of wonder, look no further for the satiation of both. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Couldn't ask for more! *by A***R on May 10, 2016* I've been eagerly awaiting this book for years before I learned that someone was actually writing it! There are a few other wonderful books out there on California foraging... Many are simply identification books, and some have a bit more information on medicinal uses, but they all lacked the culinary inspiration that Pascal delivers. This is the only book with truly gourmet recipes & drool-worthy photography. Many a 9-year-old has been scared away from wild foods after reluctantly sampling flavorless acorn mush on school field trips... This book will reawaken your innate curiosity about the truly exquisite plants that grow all around you. This book does include many alluring recipes, but more than that, it lays a foundation for your own experimentation with wild foods. Pascal provides crystal-clear tutorials along with his recipes for those who would like more guidance on various techniques such as brewing, fermenting, preserving, etc. This book is a MUST for herbalists, plant lovers, and epicureans. Even persnickety native plant people might appreciate his liberal use of many invasive species and his careful use of some native ones. Although his recipes center on plants found in California, his perspective & techniques will inspire wild foods enthusiasts anywhere in the world. Thank you Pascal for sharing your expertise & vision with all of us! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ this creation brought the author in direct contact with Nature and it evidently made an indelible mark on him *by J***S on July 9, 2016* Although The New Wildcrafted Cuisine is an exceptionally beautiful presentation of an exploration into the natural world for unique culinary delights, it is also a primary account of one's creative interrelationship with the plants of one's bioregion. This work goes beyond any previous wild plant foraging guide or wild food cookbook not only as a 'next step', but by leaps and bounds. The spirit of this book is conveyed through its unique interpretations of the author's local flora creating through the ancient principles of food alchemy and preservation and an intimacy developed with Place. As a bioregional herbalist and forager, I feel this is not only essential to deeper understanding of plants, but is inevitable in our return to the "Eden" of our home landscape. Further, I feel that one cannot begin to comprehend "stewardship" of the landscape short of participating in it. What I call the "Museumification" of our landscape in which people presumably "Leave No Trace" (how is that physically possible? It simply is not) and view Nature from afar essentially prevents us from fully participating in the life around us in a way that cannot be conveyed through words, guidebooks, or university courses. I can see that the work behind this creation brought the author in direct contact with Nature and it evidently made an indelible mark on him and his life's work. Responsible action is assured for all those who develop intimate relationship with their homeland. Allowing for mistakes, we must each follow our calling down this path and bring this enhanced awareness back to our community through our work. I personally have not met a forager who has clear-cut a forest for timber, or bladed desert for a new road or new development, or sprayed toxic chemicals across 1,000's of acres of our national forest to eradicate undesirable plants. Yet each day these activities continue on, sanctioned, and "in our best interest." The modern forager, in best practices, is seeking to re-establish harmonious relationship with her surroundings. This book does that, ambitiously. Instead of scorn for an irresponsible endeavor, I see light in a direction of responsible interrelationship with our natural environment when I read through The New Wildcrafted Cuisine. A work unlike any other. A work I would like to create some day, emerging from my own terrain. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.hr/products/25983986-the-new-wildcrafted-cuisine-exploring-the-exotic-gastronomy-of-local](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/25983986-the-new-wildcrafted-cuisine-exploring-the-exotic-gastronomy-of-local) --- *Product available on Desertcart Croatia* *Store origin: HR* *Last updated: 2026-08-01*