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	wild food Ray Mears & Gordon Hillman In 'Wild Food' Ray Mears and Gordon Hillman lead us into the wildest parts of Britain to demonstrate the huge variety of indigenous foods that can be found. One of the most crucial skills to surviving in any wilderness is self-reliance - now, with this book, you can equip yourself with the knowledge to find tasty and sustaining foods in your own back yard and beyond. Practical, enthralling, often surprising, packed with beautiful illustrations, 'Wild Food' is an invaluable tool for any keen outdoorsman, and it is a fascinating read anyone with an interest in the little-known side of Britain's natural resources. 352pp more on wild food Price: £9.99
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	food from the wild Ian Burrows 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 in-depth 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. 144pp more on wild food Price: £14.99
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	wild food for free Jonathan Hilton Are you fully aware of nature's bounty? There's free food everywhere! Herbs, salad leaves, vegetables, berries, nuts and fungi can all be found. From edible seaweed and fennel to horseradish and wild asparagus, from the roadside to seaside every environment holds a burgeoning larder. "Wild Food" shows you what plants and fungi are edible, where to look for them, how to safely identify them and how to prepare them. There's even a section devoted to delicious recipes so that you have everything you need to make the transition from pathway to plate. Organised by environment and with clear instructions for identification, this is the European forager's bible. 256pp more on wild food Price: £14.99
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	wild food Roger Phillips There is often more to forage for in the great outdoors than in your own garden. So if you are going to eat from the hedgerows then you need to know exactly what you are eating. Mr Phillips' unique photos of plants, fungi, seaweed and so on, aid such identification. Add to this many mouth-watering recipes and you have a star book. 160pp click on image for contents page more on wild food Price: £18.99
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	food for free (new edition) Richard Mabey A tiny book with over 100 edible plants featured together with recipes and other interesting culinary information. With details on how to pick, when to pick and regulations on picking. This new format of a best-selling title provides a portable guide for all those who enjoy what the countryside has to offer. Over 100 plants are listed, fully illustrated and described, together with recipes and other fascinating information about their use throughout the ages. The recipes are listed so that you can plan your foray with a feast in mind. This is the ideal book for both nature-lovers and cooks. 256pp more on wild food Price: £4.99
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	fruits of the hedgerow and unusual garden garden fruits: gather them, cook them, eat them Charlotte Popescu This is a cookbook to celebrate the sometimes forgotten fruits and nuts to be found in hedgerows and old gardens for those adventurous enough to look. It contains recipes for crab apples, blackberries, damsons, sloes, hips and haws, elderflowers and elderberries. Quinces, medlars, figs and mulberries are included plus hazelnuts, chestnuts, walnuts and poppy seeds. There are recipes for wonderful quince cheese, hot apple and blackberry soufflés, mulberry and peach summer pudding, elderflower sorbet, medlar jelly, apple and rosehip jam, walnut and black treacle loaf, poppy seed shortbread and much more. The history and nutritional value of each fruit and nut is included and suggestions on where to find them in the countryside - everything for anyone wishing to enjoy a natural diet and much of it for free! 144pp click on image for contents page more on wild food Price: £6.99
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	mushrooms Roger Phillips The culmination of over thirty years' work, this authoritative and superbly illustrated reference work is packed with the most up-to-date information and original photographs. Set to become the essential illustrated mycological encyclopedia for the next 25 years, this book is also clear, user friendly and will appeal to a wide range of readers. Unsurpassed in both illustrative and descriptive detail, "Mushrooms" contains over 1,250 photographs, often showing the specimens in various stages of growth, and including all the latest botanical and common names as well as current ecological information on endangered species. 384pp click on image for contents page more on wild food Price: £18.99
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	guide to mushrooms and toadstools of britain and northern europe Geoffrey Kibby An easy-to-use identification guide to more than 400 of the larger fungi found in Britain and northern Europe, including all the most common species and a number of rarities never previously illustrated in a pocket guide! The book is beautifully presented and each species has its own colour illustration and a concise description including size, growing season, key characteristics, fruitbody and spores, habitat and culinary value. 272pp click on image for contents page more on wild food Price: £9.99
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	the eat-a-bug cookbook David George Gordon "Waiter, there's a fly in my soup!" Don't send it back...after all, entomophagy (that's bug-eating, for those of you in the cheap seats) has long been practiced around the world. Naturalist David George Gordon, author of the popular Compleat Cockroach and entomological epicure extraordinaire, has researched his subject well, and presents the results with relish...or at least a light cream sauce. You'll find such one-of-a-kind recipes as Really Hoppin' John (grasshoppers add a little extra kick), Pest-O (common garden weevils in a creamy basil sauce) and Fried Green Tomato Hornworm (need we say more?) Each page is swarming with anecdotes, insights, and culinary tips, including the right wine to serve with scorpions, how to order edible insects by mail, why termites are good for you, and more. Truly a book like no other. 100pp more on wild food Price: £14.99
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	the wild flower key: how to identify wild plants, trees and shrubs in britain and ireland (revised edition) Francis Rose This wild flower identification guide was first published in 1981 and is still widely accepted as the best of its kind for its combination of meticulous illustrations and the use of keys to aid recognition. Aimed at the student of British and north-west European wild plants, this wild flower identification guide provides a bridge between picture identification guides and the non-illustrated academic floras. 576pp click on image for contents page more on wild food Price: £19.99
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