TY - BOOK AU - Barrett,L.E. ED - Diket, Lin, TI - Fiddle Mainia: Maine's organic edible fern SN - 9781622171644 PY - 2014///] CY - [Hallowell, Maine, U.S. PB - L.E. Barrett,] KW - Cookbooks KW - Cooking KW - Vegetarian cooking KW - Cooking (Natural foods) KW - Cooking (Wild foods) KW - Fiddleheads KW - Ferns KW - Maine KW - Wild plants, Edible KW - Canada, Eastern N1 - Includes recipe index N2 - What Mainers and others around the world refer to as the fiddlehead, or a fiddlehead green, is actually a species of fern called the ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris). It is an emerald green fern that first appears as a tight-rolled disk (the disk resembles the end of a musical instrument, similar to the fiddle and violin) and then leafs out with large green fronds that can shoot up five to six feet in height and reach twenty-five inches around. The book includes photographs of the fiddlehead fern as well as one hundred and twenty-five recipes from around the world. ER -