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| Food for Free (Collins GEM) | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Mabey
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book
List Price: £4.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 88
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 239
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
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
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent source of reference - Highly recommended August 10, 2005
56 out of 63 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 49 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
45 out of 52 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
89 out of 93 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.
the pocket bible of free food April 26, 2002
41 out of 45 found this review helpful
this is a great book if you want to get yourself some free food. It has many different plants and fungi and seafood, etc. the book gives a valuable resource of information.
I Have heard people criticize this book by saying that it is hard to identify the plants but the answer to that one is (it is not a plant identification book) If you want to live from the land or just off for a free food holiday then this is the book for you.
I would also get a good plant identification book just in case you get confused over the poisonous plants.
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