Food For Free

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The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. Each of the 240 types of fruit, nut, flower, seaweed, fungi and shellfish featured has its own identification field notes and artwork.

A complete guide to help you safely identify edible species that grow around us, together with detailed artworks, field identification notes and recipes. Each page has an illustration and descriptions of each thing so you know exactly what you are looking for.

He won wide acclaim on the publication of the original Food for Free in 1972 - which has never been out of print since - and again with the publication of the full-colour edition in 1989.

Over 100 edible plants are listed, fully illustrated and described, together with recipes and other fascinating details on their use throughout the ages.Instead it's a very good starting point for identification of edible plants and fungi, together with some ideas on how to prepare them. A guide to over 200 types of food that can be gathered in the wild in Britain, 'Food for Free' explores the history and folklore of the foods as well as explaining how we identify them and the best ways to cook and eat them. Neat little reference book to have about when delving into some woodland in the hope of finding wild food, particularly in the UK. Among his many other acclaimed publications are Gilbert White (Whitbread Biography of the Year) and the ground-breaking, award-winning best-seller Flora Britannica. Beautifully illustrated and written, ‘Food for Free’ will inspire you to take more notice of the natural harvest that surrounds us, learn how to make use of it and conserve it for future generations.