Poke salad comes from young pokeweed leaves, made safe to eat through careful boiling. The leaves are boiled twice, drained, and often sautéed in bacon grease. It's a traditional Southern foraged dish ...

A beautiful plant with bright red and black berries came up in my perennial garden. A local nurseryman identified it as poke weed. He wasn't sure if it's the same plant eaten in the South called poke ...