A Review of Wild Food Literature

A Review of Wild Food Literature

My shelves heave under the collective weight of over 100 wild food related books. By this I mean, not only general wild food books, but also ID guides and cook books for the 4 main wild food groups: Land Plants, Fungi, Seaweeds, and The Animal Kingdom. Therefore, I’ve divided these titles into 4 categories: Wild … Continued

Published in Bushcraft and Survival Skills Magazine

My shelves heave under the collective weight of over 100 wild food related books. By this I mean, not only general wild food books, but also ID guides and cook books for the 4 main wild food groups: Land Plants, Fungi, Seaweeds, and The Animal Kingdom. Therefore, I’ve divided these titles into 4 categories: Wild Food (General) and Plant ID guides; Fungi (General) and fungi ID guides; Seaweeds (General) and seaweed ID guides, and Cook Books. Sadly, to avoid a completely superficial treatment, there is only sufficient space here to do the first category any justice; the others must await future articles. Also, I’ve limited myself to English language books covering, for the most part, the UK flora

  • Wild Food by Roger Phillips
  • Food for Free by Richard Mabey
  • Food from the Wild by Ian Burrows
  • Wild Food for Free by Jonathan Hilton
  • The Forager Handbook by Miles Irving
  • The Forager’s Harvest by Samual Thayer
  • Nature’s Harvest by Samual Thayer
  • Edible Wild Plants by John Kallas
  • Hedgerow by John Wright
  • Edible Seashore by John Wright
  • Wild Food by Ray Mears and Gordon Hillman
  • A Cook On The Wild Side by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

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