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Edible Seashore: River Cottage Handbook No.5 (River Cottage Handbook 5) (Hardcover)

by John Wright (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (4 May 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747595313
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747595311
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,009 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A perfect, and beautiful, book for beginners or intermediate-level shore-foragers' Guy Dimond, Time Out


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For the forager, the seashore holds surprising culinary potential. In this authoritative, witty book John Wright takes us on a trip to the seaside. But before introducing us to the various species to be harvested, he touches on such practicalities as conservation and the ethics of foraging; safety from tides, rocks and food poisoning; the law and access to the shore, our right to fish, landing sizes and seasons; and equipment such as nets, pots and hooks. Next comes the nitty-gritty: all the main British seashore species that one might be tempted to eat. The conservation status, taste and texture, availability, seasonality, habitat, collecting technique and biology of each species is covered; there are also quite a few gratuitous but fascinating diversions. The species covered include crustacea (brown shrimp, common crab, lobster, prawn, shore crab, spider crab, squat lobster, velvet swimming crab); molluscs (clams, cockle, dog whelk, limpet, mussel, oyster, razor clam, winkle); mushrooms; plants (alexanders, babbington's orache, fennel, frosted orache, marsh samphire, perennial wall rocket, rock samphire, sea beet, sea buckthorn, sea holly, sea kale, sea purslane, sea rocket, spear-leaved orache, wild cabbage, wild thyme); and seaweed (carragheen, dulse, gut weed, laver, pepper dulse, sea lettuce, sugar kelp, kelp). Finally, there are thirty brilliant recipes. Introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Edible Seashore is destined to join the other handbooks in the series as an indispensable household reference.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Foraging Guide, 8 May 2009
A visit to the seaside will never be the same again after reading this brilliant book. I had always wondered what wild food could be collected down by the sea but had been too worried to try anything - and the things I knew you could eat I didn't know how to catch. This book explains it all in a clear and wickedly amusing way. About forty species are covered, from something called "sea beet", which is easy to find, through to lobster for which you will need to wade out with a pot at low tide. The big revelation for me is the seaweed section - these are the easiest of things to collect and, the book tells me, delicious if you know how to cook them. Which brings me to the recipes - the panacotta is delicious and I'm looking forward to trying all the others.

This book is beautifully produced and written. It is also lol funny and stuffed with really useful information.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect book for shore anglers, 18 May 2009
By Neville Merritt "Salar" (Hampshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a brilliant book if you like the idea of foraging for food on the seashore, and many things that live there appear to be edible. This book will very useful for shore anglers, who will have plenty of time to poke around while they are waiting for a bite. Some recipes are truly simple - Kelp Crisps: cut into squares, deep fry, eat. Others are more complex - shore crab soup is one but well worth it to exact revenge on those bait-robbers. John's writing is also very funny, you will find something to make you grin or laugh out loud on almost every page.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best foraging book I own!, 13 May 2009
Utterly brilliant. For anyone with an interest in coastline foraging it is a must. I own many seaweed & seashore ID books & many recipe books on the same subject but finally I have all the information I want in one book that will always be with me when I head off to the coast.

I read it cover to cover the same day it arrived, that's how good it is!

J
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4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive coverage
This is a book for the serious beach forager. I think I was a bit overwhelmed by the sheer level of detail provided. Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. Deakin

5.0 out of 5 stars Useful and yet even humorous
I bought this so I could better identify edible seaweeds. It does the job, has a lovely format with a textured hardback cover (bit like a 1960s schoolbook), and it is written in... Read more
Published 2 months ago by G. Stevenson

5.0 out of 5 stars top class handy size book for foraging....
great photos, loads of information,handy size hardback to stand the wet seaweedy hands that will be on it when checking your finds.............. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. B. R. Mcallister

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
A complete revelation. Took the book foraging with friends, brought back tons of stuff, cooked it , ate it, loved it. Can't wait to go back and do it again. Seaweed rocks!
Published 3 months ago by N. Read

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the product so good i purchased a second one for my son! who had confioscated mineEdible Seashore: River Cottage Handbook No.5 (River Cottage Handbook 5)
Published 4 months ago by W. J. Phillips

5.0 out of 5 stars family fun times and converting a city kid to the joys of foraging.
i bought this book as i was looking for some new meaningful activities
to do with my 10 year old daughter(a city kid) on weekends and on school holidays. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Indigoblu

5.0 out of 5 stars Food for FREE...
For a few years I have become agreeable to most things that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has brought out via River Cottage. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Martin Swift

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Informative and down right funny !!
John Wright has captured everything a book like this should be - informative, well illustrated and full of lines to make you laugh ! Read more
Published 6 months ago by P. Whitlam

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
A small format book which is packed full of knowledge and should be kept in your pocket/car/beach bag for any visit to the beach & seashore! Read more
Published 6 months ago by La Cook

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