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by Fiona Bird (Author)
The Forager's Kitchen is a wonderful compendium of recipes and advice that will bring the scents, tastes, and colors of the great outdoors to your dinner table.
Foraging may be the latest food trend, but it is a pastime that passionate cooks have long enjoyed. And as The Forager's Kitchen demonstrates, foraging can result in some truly scrumptious dishes! Written by Fiona Bird, a tenacious forager who has been gathering food for many years, The Forager's Kitchen will show you that you can eat off the land wherever you live. Whether you live in a large city, in open countryside, or by the coast, you will find more ingredients growing in the wild than you could imagine. With a little bit of expert knowledge and some handy tips to guide your fingers, you'll learn the best spots and seasons to find your favorite foods, for free! Then, once you have brought your bounty home, there are more than 100 simple recipes for you to try. From carrot and clover cake to salmon and nettle fishcakes, you'll never look at the outdoors in the same way again.Author Biography
Fiona is a graduate of The University of St Andrews, mother of six and a former BBC Masterchef finalist. She divides her time between Angus and the Outer Hebridean Isle of South Uist, where her husband is the local doctor. Fiona is often seen on her bicycle with a basket full of seaweed or wild edibles and is unusually late for church. Fiona is the author of Kids' Kitchen (Barefoot Books, 2009), The Forager's Kitchen (Cico Books, 2013) and Seaweed in the Kitchen (Prospect Books, 2015). She is a wild food blogger for The Huffington Post UK. Let Your Kids Go Wild Outside (Cico Books, April 2016) is her fourth book. She is currently writing a book about Christianity and food for Wild Goose Publications.
