Wild Food : A Complete Guide for Foragers by Roger Phillips

This book offers authoritative and stunningly illustrated insights into wild food and foraging from one of the top experts.

All around us, in hedgerows, fields, riversides, seashores, and even on moorland, grow plants that can be collected and cooked. With Wild Food, Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix accurately and vividly describe hundreds of these plants with vibrant photos.

This must-have guide also shares fascinating historical uses of the plant, as well as providing over 100 modern recipes for delicious dishes and drinks. Pick, pickle, and prepare all the free bounty nature offers - berries, mushrooms, herbs, wild veggies, leaves, seaweed, and even bark.

'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-Whittingstal