Where the Wild Things Grow, A Foragers Guide to the Landscape’ is a book about the wild foods growing all around us. Referencing close to 200 different wild foods, it explores what can be foraged in the manmade environment, the countryside, coast and woodlands. Each of these are split into smaller sections, such as coastal marshland, conifer wood, roadside and gardens. The beauty of ordering by habitat is you can simply flip to the right chapter whenever you want to find something in a specific area.
The book is crammed full of recipe ideas, foraging tips, snippets of food science and even a smidgen of folklore.
Flowers, plants, fruits, nuts, seaweeds, mushrooms of every kind are featured. It is a must for foodies, foragers, walkers, cyclists or anyone with an interest in the natural world.
It is my longest book to date marking the culmination of years of study into the subject of foraging from my first wild garlic forays in South Wales aged just 21 to teaching Guardian Masterclass decades later.
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