Foraging: The Essential Guide to Free Wild Food Book

This is a practical guide to finding and preparing food from hedgerows parks fields woods rivers and seashore. Aimed at the beginner it also has a wealth of tips for the enthusiast and unlike other books on wild food covers foraging in the urban environment as well as the countryside. The book shows the reader 'Where How and When' to find the best edible berries leaves flowers mushrooms seaweed shellfish and snails with clear and full instructions on what is safe to eat. "Foraging" covers the 100 wild foods that are good to eat fun to find easy to identify - and will make a healthy difference to your diet and your bank balance. The book is organised by environment so when taking a walk gardening or having a day out you know how to gather a hedgerow harvest a field feast a seaside salad. Each entry features one species and fully explains its looks exactly where in the habitat it will be found when it is ripe to eat its alternative names its history how to harvest it its culinary uses. There are full instructions too on preparation of each plant/fungi/animal along with recipes for its use.This title includes recipes such as: comfrey fritters hazelnut pate nettle beer sorrel soup dandelion coffee blackberry jam...

The Best of British Nature's Food and Drink for Free A practical guide to finding and preparing food from hedgerows, parks, fields, woods, rivers and seashore. Aimed at the beginner, it also has a wealth of tips for the enthusiast, and...