Wild Food: A Complete Guide for Foragers by Roger Phillips [Hardcover]

Wild Food: A Complete Guide for Foragers Condition: BRAND NEWFormat: Hardcover ISBN: 9781447249962 Description : Wild food is all around us, growing in our hedgerows and fields, along river banks and seashores, even on inhospitable moorland. In Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix's Wild Food, hundreds of these plants are clearly identified, with colour photography and a detailed description. This definitive guide also gives us fascinating information on how our ancestors would have used the plant as well as including over 100 more modern recipes for delicious food and drinks. From berries, herbs and mushrooms to wild vegetables, salad leaves, seaweed and even bark, this book will inspire you to start cooking with nature's free bounty. About the authorHe is best known for his photographic books of the British flora. The first, Wild Flowers of Britain sold 400,000 copies in the first year. It was about the first plant identification book that had photographs, rather than paintings, of flowers. In total, his 20 books sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide.