Food For Free (Collins Gem)

I have read many foraging books, and this one is great for beginners or when you need a refresher. Images are great, and content is written well.

Great book, love a mini pocket guide

Maybe not the best but good pictures and information, be VERY CAREFUL with the mushroom section. Eating the wrong mushrooms can cause death. Seriously BE VERY CAUTIOUS with that section and when eating any wild plants. Please build your skill set up. Dandelions are delicious when harvested at the right time.

I keep this with me everywhere I go!

Amazing book, although I haven’t seen to many of the plants from the book out and about I hope to see more

An absolutely outstanding, indispensable guide to wild foods found in Britain, and to an awful lot of American plants and shellfish as well. He writes with passion, humor, and a rich knowledge of the scientific, historical, culinary, and literary background of his subject. Highly, highly recommended, as is everything else by this author!

I didn't realize, as it wasn't immediately apparent in the book summary that this is quite specific to the UK. I'd assumed that he was going to be covering temperate regions in general. This largely renders the book non-useful for anyone outside of Britain as the species covered appear fairly localized, even if they have close relatives in the US, the varieties are different enough to cause confusion if going upon the info in this book. The biggest bummer is that I've got nobody I could give this book away to since it would cost as much to ship it to the UK as it would cost someone there to just buy it new. No obviously this is partially my fault; I should've known that since it was a UK publisher it wouldn't be useful to me, but it would have been nice for Collins to describe it's region-specificity in the book description submitted to Amazon.

I love the book. Smaller than expected but good anyway