Oak by William Bryant Logan
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast:
This book was written in 2006.
As a professional arborist and award-winning nature writer, William captures the reciprocal relationship between humans and oak trees for centuries. Oak is a fascinating book; William's prose sometimes reads almost like poetry.
In the book, William even writes about the mighty acorn and its little-known use as an edible.
William tries to make acorn jelly and acorn flour, and he writes that the acorn has a unique characteristic as an edible; it makes you feel full for hours after eating it.
William says,
"There is some basic sympathy between oaks and humans.
We invented a whole way of living out of their fruit and their wood, and by that token, they too invented us."
William is the author of other simply-titled books: Dirt, A Book of Roses, Air, and Sprout Lands.
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