River Cottage Handbook Edible Seashore No 5

ISBN: 9780747595311
Publication date: 01/08/2009

For the forager, the seashore holds surprising culinary potential. In this authoritative, witty book John Wright takes us on a trip to the seaside. But before introducing us to the various species to be harvested, he touches on such practicalities as conservation and the ethics of foraging; safety from tides, rocks and food poisoning; the law and access to the shore, our right to fish, landing sizes and seasons; and equipment such as nets, pots and hooks.
Next comes the nitty-gritty: all the British seashore species that one might be tempted to eat. The conservation status, taste and texture, availability, seasonality, habitat, collecting technique and biology of each species is covered; there are also quite a few gratuitous but fascinating diversions. The species covered include crustacea (brown shrimp, common crab, hermit crab, lobster, prawn, shore crab, spider crab, squat lobster, velvet swimming crab); molluscs (clams, cockle, dog whelk, limpet, mussel, oyster, razor clam, winkle); mushrooms; sea urchin; plants (alexanders, common mallow, common orache, frosted orache, marsh samphire, perennial wall rocket, rock samphire, sea beet, sea buckthorn, sea campion, sea holly, sea

Pages: 256
Author: WRIGHT, JOHN