BEAUTIFUL full color photos, and delicate, elegant recipes are arranged by the green in question. In short, I want a copy to keep for the generations.

If you have ever been to a farmer's market, or did one of those organic "plot share" programs, you might have run into some greens that you had never seen before and whose name you have never heard uttered. When I lived in Southern Arizona, I used to frequent a food bank farmer's market that had robust seasonal offerings that made sense for the environment. Lemme tell you, greens that grow well in Arizona without hogging too much water are strange things indeed. Things you will never find in a supermarket, even a fancy Whole Foods. I wish I'd had this book at that time, because it was basically trial and (usually) error with weird hippie blog recipes. Now that I live in São Paulo, my greens are much more limited, and the ones we do have are weird things that the dictionary says are the same as their North American counterparts, but they surely do not taste nor act the same. Anyways, I'm trying to accept the "espinafre" for what it is (thanks to this book I learned it is New Zealand Spinach and despite the name is not technically a spinach), and maybe broaden my horizons to try to encounter weirder species.