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Edible Plants in The Hunger Games

May 30, 2012 Erica M. Davis 8 Comments

Cow lilies (Nuphar lutea) at Lilypad Lake in the national forest, accessed from Frisco, Colorado.

“Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and you’re dead,” writes Suzanne Collins in The Hunger Games (2008), a book I liked instantly because the protagonists of the impoverished District Twelve are foraging wild food from day one. Katniss and Gale make it … [Read more...]

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