Provides information about and recipes using the Kudzu plant, used for ground cover in America but considered a delicacy in Asian countries.

Regarded in Asia as the world's finest haute cuisine cooking starch & as a powerful natural healing agent, this book on the Kudzu vine contains 72 tasty recipes & 12 medicinal teas that can be made at home.

The world's finest cooking starch. A healing herb more versatile than ginseng. As the people of East Asia know well, kudzu is a blessing! The Book of Kudzu tells why , and how. Delicious American-style recipes using kudzu powder. Time-tested medicinal teas and the specific ailments for which they work. Instructions for extracting kudzu powder from the roots at home or on a cottage-industry scale. Illustrated instructions for weaving with silk-like kudzu fibers. An assessment of the role kudzu could play in our changing ecosystem.

Kudzu? Would you?... Could you?... Should you?... Cook with that wild & crazy vine? You bet! Growing inside this book are delicious & healthy recipes, fascinating history, flabbergasting trivia and more than a smidgen of humor, even poetry who knew kudzu could be so much fun? Soon, you will!One trivia statement in The Kudzu Cookbook includes that Kudzu was first brought to the Unites States from Japan in 1876 when it was grown in the Japanese pavilion at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the in 1883 at the New Orleans Expo. Kudzu is used in many dishes throughout Southeast Asia. In Asia, kudzu is known as Japanese arrowroot and is welcome in the kitchen as a thickening agent for soups, stews and sauces. Kudzu is also used in Japan in their fine cuisine as well as for highly regarded medicinal teas. The starchy root of the plant is also a good source of fiber. A few recipes include Kudzu Tea, Grilled Kudzu Corn, Klassic Kudzu Julep, But

Reed presents a charming collection of recipes, essays on food and family, and recollections of growing up in a small Southern town. The book includes entertaining tips and ideas, as well as suggestions for gifts of food, and fun ways to celebrate the seasons.