Eat your Weeds!

Here is the book we’ve all been waiting for…. with sound advice on which weeds are edible and how to cook with them, this could be a game-changer in the life and work of every gardener beset by pernicious weeds. The 90 recipes using 22 common weeds include ground ivy scones, fan hen empanadas, nettle cake, dandelion flower jam and sorrel pikelets; there must surely be something here to tempt every palate.

 

* Professional Gardener Magazine *

The best-selling authors’ plant-based cookery book shines a light on these overlooked plants, often dismissed as ‘just weeds’. The book encourages the reader to forage for them and to appreciate their flavour in sweet and savoury food, drinks and snacks.

* Positive Health magazine *

A fascinating background to the historic uses of weeds, their medicinal properties and culinary delights. 90 delicious plant-based recipes that put these wild plants centre stage, including chickweed, ox-eye daisies, hogweed, honey mushroom, nettles and sorrel.

* Landscape magazine *

I have been on a number of foraging workshops over the years and have written a book on the use of stinging nettles myself, so I was wondering if this book would teach me much that I hadn’t come across already. Well, it certainly did!

-- Piers Warren * Green Spir