Wild Food: A Complete Guide for Foragers

by Roger Phillips

An authoritative and beautifully illustrated book on wild food and foraging by a leading expert

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 color 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 more than 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. lncludes dual measures.

Genres: Food, Nonfiction, Nature, Reference, Cooking, Cookbooks

241 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 24, 2014

About the author

In 1975 Roger Phillips began his life’s major work of photographing and publishing pictures of the World’s garden plants. Using modern photographic techniques, Roger set out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals. His first book Wild Flowers of Britain was a huge success, selling 400,000 copies in the first year. He has since written 20 additional volumes (often with his co-author Martyn Rix) selling over 4.5million copies worldwide.

Roger has written and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening (BBC & Channel 4). Famed for his ebullient personality and garish red glasses, he has become a well-recognised figure in the world of gardening.

Roger trained at Chelsea School of Art from where he entered a career in advertising culminating in the position of art director at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising. He left O&M to start a career as a freelance photographer, winning many awards before turning his photographic talents to the world of natural history.

Reviews

[Reading · Rating 3 out of 5]

The title is misleading, this isn't a foraging book, it's a book on wild food recipes.

There's a large section on mushrooms which is great if you know what you are doing, I'm still learning the identification of mushrooms.

This wasn't what I was expecting from this book, I'm looking for an up-to-date book on foraging with proper color identification pictures.

I'll keep this one though, for future recipes. 🌿🌱🍄

[JJ W · Rating 3 out of 5]

I much prefer John Wright’s “The Forager’s Calendar”