All About Dandelions: Medicine Making and Culinary Creations

About this episode

This episode explores the dandelion plant, its uses in medicine and cooking, and provides guidance on identification and harvesting.

We’re digging into one of the most overlooked plants in our landscape, dandelion, specifically Taraxacum officinale. What most people see as a weed, we see as a powerhouse of flavor, nutrition, and medicine...and we’re excited to share why. We walk you through how to properly identify dandelion (and avoid common lookalikes), when and how to harvest each part of the plant, and why timing makes all the difference. From there, we head into the kitchen, where we share simple, practical ways to us...

People in this episode

Host: Bevin Cohen

Topics covered

• dandelions
• medicinal plants
• culinary uses
• foraging
• nutrition
• plant identification

Keywords

• dandelion
• medicine making
• culinary creations
• foraging
• nutrition
• plant identification

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: All About Dandelions: Medicine Making and Culinary Creations

Places: Taraxacum officinale

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