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Alexis Nikole Nelson is full of humor, and her cookbook, Happy Snacking, Don’t Die! Foraging & Vegan Recipes With Black Forager, is the perfect antidote to the self-serious vegan stereotype. In a chapter titled “Speaking of Filthy Vegans,” she quickly adds that her recipes are adaptable to all diets. As a forager, Nelson has already amassed a devoted following thanks to her playful social media presence (her @blackforager Instagram account has just under 3 million followers). In this book, Nelson guides readers through the particularities of finding and gathering wild edible plants in nature. Along with a list and description of simple tools required to forage (“Foraging is supposed to help you cut back on consumption,” she explains, “so I would never ask you to go and buy new things when what you have will work perfectly”), she provides a list of places to avoid when foraging, including “le dog pee corridor” and along railroad tracks (railroad companies frequently use strong pesticides to control overgrowth, so no matter how wild the plants appear, they might be coated in chemicals). But the majority of the book is devoted to recipes, and Nelson has arranged them in order of seasonal availability of foraged ingredients like mugwort, wild garlic, dandelion and milkweed (it’s not just for monarchs; you can fry the buds, drink the nectar and stuff the pods with savory spinach and nutritional yeast). A section on magnolia includes beautiful, colorful photographs of the flowering tree as well as in-depth descriptions and identification guides. Even with such a unique single ingredient, Nelson covers a broad range of tasty morsels: Simple recipes like pickled magnolia flowers and magnolia bud tea are followed by the more complex “thicc” magnolia syrup and magnolia snap cookies. Nelson’s refreshingly inclusive approach to both foraging and veganism makes Happy Snacking, Don’t Die! an ideal introduction to either way of life.