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| Author: Richard Mabey
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book
Buy New: £4.99
New (28) Used (7) from £1.14
Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 344
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 239
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 4.4 x 3.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0007183038
Dewey Decimal Number: 580
EAN: 9780007183036
ASIN: 0007183038
Publication Date: August 2, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excites the interest but not actually that practical October 26, 2005
74 out of 84 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book but in the wrong package. Richard Mabey does a very good job of giving a seasonal guide to what's out there that you can have for free and does a respectable job of telling you how to use it. It falls short in two respects;
First it is not a comprehensive guide to any particular food source so while he may tell you how to cook ceps and morels and gives a reasonable guide to identifying it without this being a comprehensive guide to fungi you will never be entirely certain that what you have is a cep or a morel. To some extent that is true for everything he shows whether its fungi, nuts or fruit.
The second point is more significant for a book on foraging and is that this edition is simply too big to take into the field. In some ways this isn't a significant problem as because the book isn't comprehensive it wouldn't be the choice to take into the field with you.
This book falls somewhere between the coffee table forager's manual and Delia goes wild. Both of which might sound like criticisms but for someone who hasn't foraged wild food previously both of those would be the ideal starting point. If that's you then buy this book and read it but leave it at home when you go out and get a good field guide to take with you.
Note - since writing that review I have realised that this is available in several editions. Some of the other editions are small enough to use as a field guide.
 Excellent source of reference - Highly recommended August 10, 2005
59 out of 66 found this review helpful
I got this book from my local library but loved it so much that I am going to get my own copy for future reference. After reading this book I went out for a walk and picked some blackberries, elderberries & sloes, which were growing in abundance some 10 minutes from my house! This book opened my eyes to stuff that I usually overlook in the hedgerows and provided me with some useful information about the type of plants, fruits and fungi that are edible (and perhaps not always well known), with recipe ideas too. It encouraged me to venture out into the fresh air and walk in local woodland, along river banks and fields etc. I even found some of the highly recommended Parasol mushrooms! Wonderful book and really, really useful. Worth every penny.
Food for Free book for huge price July 27, 2005
14 out of 50 found this review helpful
i love this book, but i have an old copy with drawings and prints.. its great, and i wanted an updated version i could keep in my backpack, but not at this price i got mine for 4.00 at a second hand shop and didnt realise how good a bargin i had.
Food for free July 14, 2004
46 out of 53 found this review helpful
I found this to be an outstanding book full of lavish photos and colourful text.I really am amazed how much we, as a nation, have forgotten about what is available on our doorstep!! I highly recommend this to anyone who is curious about food in any way. A really good buy!!
FOOD FOR FREE BY RICHARD MABEY September 15, 2003
94 out of 99 found this review helpful
A delightful, colourful book that is full of the countryside with amazing recipes of the wild flowers and weeds that have been photographed and inset on every page. He has created a new space for the English seasonal climate and the accompanying display of wild, ornate colourful flowers that have all got there culinary uses, some known like chicory others not so well known like Bladder Wrack Popweed. There are 21 daring recipes for you to try each containing somekind of wild flower or herb. The overall review of this book is that if you are in love with the countryside you will definetely find this book very interesting.
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