Food For Free

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White background to cover illustrations is age-discoloured, with a few marks; creases to front cover corner and up the middle of the back cover. Armed with this guide, this month you could be sampling the simple pleasures of eating a fleshy Hottentot fig straight from a Devon clifftop, making elderflower fritters gathered from the hedgerows, or frying fairy-ring champignons picked off your lawn. In all over 300 species are described, of which 90 are illustrated in colour and 148 in Blamey's wonderfully detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St.

There is also practical advice on how to pick plus the countryside laws and regulations on picking wild plants. Photography and illustrated with in depth descriptions it is a great little pocket book for anyone I was recommended this by a friend and I am so grateful for the advice. More importantly I found it was packed full of words that don't seem to have made it into the 21st century version. This little pocket book has a nice menu of freely available foodstuffs and recipes to include them in. A regular commentator on the radio and in the national press, he is also a Director of the arts and conservation charity Common Ground and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. It was a surprise to see just how small this book is but on reflection, it can be carried around and referred to much easier than I thought. Illustrated throughout with stunning colour photographs this fully-revised edition of a Collins bestseller explains the best ways to make use of the foods we can find in the wild. This is a great book to keep in the backpack you take on hikes or camping trips, and it's a great book to just paw through while you are bored in a bus station or airport, too. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.He won wide acclaim on the publication of the original Food for Free in 1972 – which has never been out of print since. I Will be viewing my surroundings in a whole different light now as I start to become aware of each species and their uses. Practical advice on how to pick along with information on countryside laws and regulations on picking wild plants helps you to plan your foray with a feast in mind. 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.