She recalls how she used her mother's apothecary books and her father's drawings to find edible plants, and how the woods became her savior. She remembers her first day in the woods by herself, how she hid and outsmarted different predators, and how she discovered the bluish tubers after which she was named, katniss. If she bakes or boils the roots, they are like potatoes. The woods and its plants and animals save Katniss and her family.
