books on uk plants (please help)

[sparks]

hi can anyone tell me if there are any good books on edible plants in the uk and how to cook them

thanks adam

 

[jdlenton]

Food for free by Richard Mabey will get you well on your way but a search and read through the lovely grub forum should get you even more excited about wild food

James

 

[falling rain]

'A cook on the wildside' - Huge furry whittling tool (Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall) available from the River cottage website and 'Wildfood' by Roger Philips (Amazon) are good books. I've recently added both to my collection and am very pleased with them. The readers digest series 'Wildflowers' is also good and gives some interesting facts on folklore, but not a lot about edibility.

 

[sparks]

thanks guys
i picked up Food for free by Richard Mabey today and it seems to be a very good book
thanks again
adam

 

[Jumbalaya]

Hi guys,

I have a couple of books on uk wild edible greens available. See: countrylovers.co.uk/wildfoodjj

There are also some on-line ideas about how to do things with edible wild plants, and always happy to provide a few thoughts on whatever you might have in front of you to cook up.

JJ

 

[demographic]

Food for free is now avaliable in handy Collins Gem pocket sized paperback

 

[stevo]

Yeah, the mabey book, the phillips book wild food, and the whittingstall book....great start!!

stevo

 

[Neil1]

get yourself some books on plant ID (Collins, Roger Phillips, etc) then look at the publications by the Wild Food School, this will give you ways to actually use the plants you find.
The Collins Gem Food for Free is very usefull, its size means its in your pocket when you need it. Wild food School do a very good distance learning package, that comes with CD Roms for each season or if you can get down to Cornwall do a couple of courses with them.
Hope this helps.
Neil

 

[leon-b]

yes i am going to buy food for free it seems a very good book and loads of people have reccomended it to me

 

[WERDNA]

i thought the food for free book (the one with the picture of a wood on the front)
had some poor quality photographs of the edable plants not much detail and not very close up, if you eat the wrong plant i hear it can be very serious,

is there a better version, i have only seen this one in reall life

 

[nobby]

i thought the food for free book (the one with the picture of a wood on the front)
had some poor quality photographs of the edable plants not much detail and not very close up, if you eat the wrong plant i hear it can be very serious,

is there a better version, i have only seen this one in reall life

Look for the 1970's prints. They have better detail.