Robin Harford

Robin Harford

Ethnobotanist, forager and creator of Eat Weeds

https://www.eatweeds.co.uk/
Robin Harford is an ethnobotanist, forager and creator of www.eatweeds.co.uk, considered to be the UK’s leading wild food foraging site. He specialises in wild edible plants and has been teaching people about their local edible landscape throughout the UK since 2009. He is a director of Plants & Healers International, a non-profit that connects people, plants and healers around the world. He also travels extensively documenting and recording the traditional and local uses of wild food plants in indigenous cultures, and more recently his work has taken him to Africa, SE Asia and Europe.

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A Garden of Herbs

A Garden of Herbs

A delightful book that lists recipes dating back to the 16th century. Some wonderful wild food recipes that continually inspire me.

They Can’t Ration These

They Can’t Ration These

Published during the WW2 when rationing was biting into the British diet, it advocated a way to eat prosperously while at the same time saving the pennies.

Pure Vegetarian Indian Cookery

Pure Vegetarian Indian Cookery

Picked up in an 2nd handbook bookshop in Delhi back in 1986, I still haven't found an Indian cookbook to rival it. Mine is battered with a lot of cellotape to hold it together.

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Honey from a Weed

Honey from a Weed

Patience Gray

I just like the way this book is written, like a gentle journey through the Italian countryside dotted with lovely recipes, many of them using wild edibles.

Keeping Food Fresh

Keeping Food Fresh

Anyway to rediscover the traditional ways of food preservation always gets my attention. A delightful book with simple way to keep your harvest.

Nourishing Traditions

Nourishing Traditions

Sally Fallon

As the strapline states: "The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition & the Diet Dictocrats. Breaks all the rules about animal fats, and has some original and unique recipes that taste awesome.