Food For Free

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For example, I knew that rosehips Rosa canina contain 20 times more vitamin C than oranges but did not know that in 1941 the Ministry of Health in Britain distributed rosehip syrup to families. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He won wide acclaim on the publication of the original Food for Free in 1972 – which has never been out of print since – and again with the publication of the full-colour edition in 1989.

This is a great book to keep in the backpack you take on hikes or camping trips, and it's a great book to just paw through while you are bored in a bus station or airport, too. The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. The historical information referring to war, Roman occupation and Victorian eating habits is fascinating. As the book suggests itself, a proper, photograph-laden field guide is best used as an accompaniment, particularly for the Mushroom section, which is the only section I have yet to successfully forage from, but alternative recipes for Dandelion Roots (Japanese style), Hawthorn Berries and Rosehips have yielded some wholesome, if not entirely tasty, results and I have successfully identified many seaweeds but not eaten them as they were found near pollution outflows.

Among his many other acclaimed publications are Gilbert White (Whitbread Biography of the Year) and the ground-breaking bestseller Flora Britannica .

Also falls a bit short in terms of highlighting possibilities for mis-identification, but I guess that onus falls on more detailed books.The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.