- 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: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 404,648 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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57 of 57 people found the following review helpful
Format: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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
A well set out and easy to read book! I loved the bold and uncomplicated manner of this book from the second I opened it. Excellent and simple color pictures help to make the whole foragin experience with this book more interactive, compared with say Miles Irving's excellent book (The Forager Handbook) which has black and white pictures an heavier to carry. This book is smaller and lighter the Irving's, therefore making it easier to carry around. The book is set out in sections; Fruit, Nut And Seeds, Flowers, Greens And Vegtables, Herbs, Roots, Whole Plants, Seeweeds, Fungi, which I love, as it means I can skip right to the relevent section without neccessarily knowing the specific plant. Not as comprehensive as Miles Irving's book, but overall easier to use, loads of useful info, and plenty of areas of interest as far a expanding my awareness of wild food.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.
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