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  • Edible Seashore: River Cottage Handbook No.5

    Edible Seashore by Wright, John;

    River Cottage Handbook No.5

    Series: River Cottage Handbook;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
    • Date of Publication 4 May 2009
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9780747595311
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages240 pages
    • Size 200x134x24 mm
    • Weight 475 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations Colour Illustrations throughout
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    Short description:

    In the fifth of the River Cottage Handbook series, John Wright reveals
    the rich pickings to be had on the seashore - and the team at River
    Cottage explain how to cook them to perfection.

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    Long description:

    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 main 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, lobster, prawn, shore crab, spider crab, squat lobster, velvet swimming crab); molluscs (clams, cockle, dog whelk, limpet, mussel, oyster, razor clam, winkle); mushrooms; plants (alexanders, babbington's orache, fennel, frosted orache, marsh samphire, perennial wall rocket, rock samphire, sea beet, sea buckthorn, sea holly, sea kale, sea purslane, sea rocket, spear-leaved orache, wild cabbage, wild thyme); and seaweed (carragheen, dulse, gut weed, laver, pepper dulse, sea lettuce, sugar kelp, kelp).

    Finally, there are thirty brilliant recipes. Introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Edible Seashore is destined to join the other handbooks in the series as an indispensable household reference.

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