The Edible City

An inspiring book for city dwellers who pine for the bounty of a countryside hedgerow. The year-round urban foraging guide encourages readers to open their eyes to the treasures growing in our city centres, with accompanying recipes such as stinging nettle tempura and hawthorn relishSunday Times, The Dish

The book is an ode, not just to the joys of meadowsweet and porcini mushrooms, but to getting out into nature, wherever you can find it in a concrete and glass city. Foraging instead of mindfulness. Plum-scrumping as an anti-depressant...lyrically written, beautifully illustrated by Gwen Burns, and has made me look at parks and heaths and garden squares with newly curious, and hungry, eyes.The Spectator

Comprising a year-long diary, recipe book and identification guide, this beautifully illustrated volume neatly sidesteps tie-dyed worthiness by dint of it being honest, fascinating and downright useful. Each of the 12 sections that make up the bulk of the book describes the author’s food-finding forays throughout the year, notes on where to go and what to look out for, the odd handy drawing to help identify plants and a few recipes to put those new-found ingredients to use. It doesn’t sound too complicated and, the more you read, the more you realise it isn’t...As well as guiding me through the seasons and the bounty each brings – and opening up a whole world of greenery I can happily pick and eat for free – this charming book has given me bags of ideas and helped make me look at our capital city and myself in a different light. As the author states in the introduction: “If foraging teaches us anything, it’s to enjoy and celebrate what is available, not to hanker after what is not.” A worthy pursuit indeed.Caught by the River

This is an inspiring invitation to see your familiar urban environment in a different light . . . Learn how to find chickweed, wild garlic, sorrel - and infuse your cooking with unusual flavours. Turn annoying stinging nettles into delicious tempura nibbles. Foraging: check, mindfulness: check - how on-trend can a cookbook get?The Lady