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Published by Random House 2008-10-02, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0701182539ISBN 13: 9780701182533
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
Book
hardback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by Chatto and Windus, London, 2008
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. MUNRO James (illustrator). 1st Edition. 224pp. Brown cloth boards with silver titles and colophon to spine in unclipped dustwrapper. Author's signature to title page. A beautiful clean tight and bright copy.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0701182539ISBN 13: 9780701182533
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by James Munro (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, tiny closed tear to top of spine, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 224pp, illustrated. Richard Mabey began experimenting with cooking as soon as he was big enough to clamber to the cupboard where the powdered chocolate was kept. At scout camp he learned how to cook a Sussex Pond Pudding in a billycan, and thirty years ago he permanently broadened the nation's palate with his guide to edible wild plants 'Food For Free'.This book is a joyous exploration of local ingredients, broadening your horizons by travelling, vernacular heritage, and making use of everything except, as the saying goes 'the pig's squeal'. It includes: Collecting Corsican chestnut receipes and American mushroom ideas, and meditating on what a forest food culture would have been like, Cooking eggs in nothing but the sun, Making bread the prehistoric way with old beer, Exploring the outer limits of apple cusine (i.e. the outer limit is making leather out of apples), 'Cooking against the grain', if we didn't have access to wheat, what could we make with nuts? How to deal with gluts, those autumn mountains of beans and courgettes, Making-do the wartime way, canny tricks his mother taught him, and re introducing his father's passion for offals.