- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd (1 Mar 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843308916
- ISBN-13: 978-1843308911
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 17.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 461,495 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The fields, woods, hedgerows, coasts, gardens and even wastelands of Britain and northern Europe are home to an abundant supply of edible plants that are good to eat raw, cooked as a meal in themselves or used as a culinary ingredient in a variety of dishes. Food from the Wild is a practical field guide to over 250 species of fruits, nuts and seeds, flowers, plant leaves, herbs, roots, seaweeds and fungi found in Britain and northern Europe. Each entry gives detailed information on size, appearance, occurrence, habitat and instructions on preparation cooking, One or more accurately drawn yet stunning artworks accompany the text to aid identification when out in the field. An introduction covers the methods used to preserve and store each edible foodstuff. The fungi section carries its own introduction, which gives more indepth detail on how to identify, cook and store this species, with a section on confusion species. Food from the Wild provides everything you need to know to collect and gather edible produce available in the wild in one stunning volume.
About the Author
Ian Burrows has a degree in Biological Sciences and a Ph.D in microbiology. He was a lecturer in microbiology at the University of Papua New Guinea for ten years and now runs his own business, taking people out on birdwatching and general natural history and wild food identification tours in East Anglia.
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54 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great reference but not intended as a field guide!,
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This review is from: Food from the Wild (Hardcover)
This book has become one of my firm favourites in my bushcraft / wildfood library. The work is more comprehensive in the range of edible plants covered than many of the other (better-known) books in this field. A major strength of this book is that it focuses specifically on the edible plants of the UK and Northern Europe. It does not, on the whole, include recipes but does have a lot of factual information. On the back cover it lists as one of its merits 'Detailed artworks provide accurate identification'. Please, please DO NOT try to use this book to identify wild plants (or especially FUNGI) with which you are unfamiliar. The drawings (although very beautiful) are INADEQUATE to make positive identifications. If you are serious about foraging YOU SHOULD BUY THIS BOOK but also buy one (or two) good field guides, for identification purposes. Remember there are many poisonous plants and fungi in the UK.
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Finds of the Wild,
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This review is from: Food from the Wild (Hardcover)
A brilliant book for anyone wanting to find out more about what you can eat from the countryside. Very informative and the pictures accompany well.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
recipes,
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This review is from: Food from the Wild (Hardcover)
nice book and quite informative but sadly no recipes to with it. I should have liked to know this.
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