Edible Wild Plants and Herbs - Softcover

This is both a practical and entertaining guide. The delicate illustrations, of items both familiar and arcane, are by Christabel King, a form chief botanical artist at Kew Gardens. Michael's writing is clear and concise, and her recipes are straightforward and accessible. It's in the slipstream of pioneering works that combine identification with history, folklore and cooking advice. --Times Literary Supplement, October 2015.

Calling all foragers! With 400-plus recipes using almost 100 plants, Edible Wild Plants & Herbs by Pamela Michael is a field guide, too, illustrating the edible parts of plants at peak picking times. A must-have for country dwellers! --Country Homes & Interiors
This is a great book. What makes it so useful is the detailed information about each plant, the mix of recipes and remedies, and the excellent whole-page paintings that make the plants easily identifiable. -- Juno

Amusing, erudite and beautifully illustrated, this book is a forager's bible! -- Radar, The Independent, May 2015

In the past the home kitchen provided a family with all its medicines and cosmetics as well as its food, wine, pickles and preserves. Our ancestors were resourceful and imaginative and very much in tune with nature; this book recaptures their harmonious, sustainable way of life by setting down for the modern reader all that knowledge and lore. There are recipes for soups, sauces, main dishes, salads, pickles, jams, sorbets, as well as teas, syrups and lotions. Edible Wild Plants & Herbs is both a cookbook and field guide to the identification and use of foodstuffs from the wild. The book is exquisitely and lavishly illustrated with detailed full-colour paintings by Christabel King, chief botanical artist at Kew Gardens. They show in detail every plant and herb listed, and range from dandelion and sorrel to sea beet and samphire. There are almost 400 recipes covering nearly 100 different plant varieties and the illustrations, drawn from life by one of the countrys leading botanical artists, show the edible parts of the plants at their peak time for picking. In addition there is a calendar indicating what plants to look for at each season of the year, information on where the plants are found and how to identify them.