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Wild food is all around us, growing in our hedgerows and fields, along river banks and seashores, even on inhospitable moorland. In this definitive book, hundreds of these plants are clearly identified, with colour photography and a detailed description. Roger Phillips 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. 'I can safely say that if I hadn't picked up this book some twenty years ago I wouldn't have eaten as well, or even lived as well, as I have. It inspired me then and it inspires me now' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
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Introduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Mushrooms Chapter - 1: Chanterelle Chapter - 2: Horn of Plenty Chapter - 3: Cep Porcini Chapter - 4: Morel Chapter - 5: Summer Truffle Chapter - 6: St George’s Mushroom Chapter - 7: Parasol Mushroom Chapter - 8: Field Mushroom Chapter - 9: Wood Blewit Chapter - 10: Hedgehog Fungus Chapter - 11: Giant Puffball Chapter - 12: Oyster Mushroom Unit - 2: Flowers for Salads Chapter - 13: Rose Petals Chapter - 14: Dandelion Unit - 3: Seaweed and Salt Marsh Plants Chapter - 15: Marsh Samphire Chapter - 16: Sea Purslane Unit - 4: Vegetables, Leaves and Herbs Chapter - 17: Sea Beet Chapter - 18: Sea Kale Chapter - 19: Stinging Nettle Chapter - 20: Sorrel Chapter - 21: Wild Cabbage Chapter - 22: Fennel Chapter - 23: Wild Thyme Chapter - 24: Mint Unit - 5: Fruit, Berries, Nuts and Roots Chapter - 25: Blackberry Chapter - 26: Elder Chapter - 27: Rowan or Mountain Ash Chapter - 28: Crab Apple Unit - 6: Teas, Beers and Wines Chapter - 29: Elder Section - ii: Further Reading Index - iii: Index
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Roger Phillips was an award-winning photographer with a reputation spanning nearly fifty years. In 1975, he began his life's major work of cateloguing the world's garden plants, setting out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals.
Roger consistently pioneered the use of colour photography for the reliable identification of natural history subjects, and wrote more than forty works dedicated to this purpose, including Vegetables; Mushrooms; Wild Food; Trees; and the seminal Wild Flowers: of Britain and Ireland, which sold almost half a million copies in its first year alone, and has gone on to become the bible for anthophiles across the Isles.
Roger wrote and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening for the BBC and Channel 4. Famed for his ebullient personality and trademark red glasses, he was a well-recognised figure in the world of gardening, and he received an MBE for his work on London’s garden squares. He died in November 2021.
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A unique photographic guide to finding, cooking and eating wild plants, mushrooms and seaweed.
