Food for Free

£4.99

This new format of a best-selling title provides a portable practical guide for all those who enjoy an engagement with the living things of the countryside through foraging for edible wild plants, many of which are ancestors of the familiar produce at the greengrocer. Over 100 plants are listed - also some examples of shellfish - fully illustrated and described, together with recipes and other fascinating information about their use throughout the ages.
This is the ideal book for both nature-lovers and cooks.
There is also practical advice on how and when to pick or gather, plus the countryside laws and regulations on picking wild plants. The book includes a glossary and suggested further reading and is indexed for species and recipes. Originally published in 1972.

nb. this is a book about food, and no plants are included purely on the grounds of presumed therapeutic value