Nature

A Forager's Guide to Wild Drinks: Ferments, infusions and thirst-quenchers for every season by Liz Knight

Brew up your own wild concoctions to enjoy through the seasons. The book celebrates year-round foraging and feasting. Soothing winter warmers and delicate botanical teas join energy-boosting tonics and zingy summer coolers in its beautiful pages. Liz Knight’s expertise and enthusiasm – familiar to viewers of numerous BBC TV shows including Saturday Live and Escape to the Farm – are truly infectious, and her readers will soon be happily gathering their own wild harvest. She includes step-by-step instructions for the basic processes for making different types of drink, including wines, beers, fermented drinks, teas, coffees, juices, tinctures and tonics – so you'll never go thirsty!

Wild Kitchen: Nature-Loving Chefs at Home by Claire Bingham

Green is the new black. With environmental concerns at an all-time high, many of us are looking to promote sustainability in everyday ways, especially at home. It is more important than ever that our kitchen and dining spaces allow us to live in harmony with nature. This glimpse into the home kitchens and dining areas of twenty of the world’s top chefs, food bloggers and restaurateurs reveals inspiring ways that the food-obsessed are embracing the 'wild' at home in their everyday cooking and dining. From a chef who experiments with herbs in a city apartment to a blogger who forages with her family in a local forest, each personality’s featured kitchen story offers a behind-the-scenes view of their unique cooking philosophy along with their insider tips for creating a unique kitchen space. Each chef – from Julia Sherman and David Tanis to Judy Williams (of Via Carota) and Rita Sodi – provides a simple recipe that uses their favourite natural ingredients. Offering advice on essential utensils, entertaining and bringing the outside in, the book also features a directory of websites and restaurants for those interested in finding out more.

Edible: 70 Sustainable Plants That Are Changing How We Eat by Kevin Hobbs and Artur Cisar-Erlach

The desire to know where our food comes from and to minimize our carbon footprints is ever-growing. Wild Kitchen offers fresh insights into kitchen design and styling from those who understand the sustainable lifestyle best, and will inform, delight and inspire all food lovers looking to get back to nature. An illustrated celebration of sustainable and often little-known edible plants from around the world that are revolutionizing how we grow, eat and appreciate food. Plants that can thrive under the most challenging of conditions are becoming ever more important in ensuring food security in our changing climate. This book takes the reader on a visual journey, exploring edible plants from around the world, from the more familiar to the lesser known. Richly illustrated, each plant profile gives fascinating insights into relevant growing conditions and flavour profiles, as well as helpful tips for growing, cooking and eating. Many of the world’s edible plants have been cultivated by humankind over thousands of years and yet more than half of our diet is made up of just three: wheat, maize and rice. There are many thousands more we can make use of to create a more sustainable food future. Offering the reader an extraordinary peek into the tasty world of plants, Edible explores fascinating plants from every continent, including grains and vegetables alongside quirky local staples, from the little-known spice grains of paradise to the dandelion and Irish moss. Highlighting common ways each plant is cooked and eaten, each plant profile provides vital information on climatic and growing conditions, nutrition, flavour and even unexpected medicinal properties. With a directory of places to find and purchase featured plants and accompanying resources at the end of the book, this visually appealing compendium offers both a deeper appreciation and understanding of the huge diversity of edible plants and a rich source of inspiration for readers to discover, try and grow new food for themselves.

Plantbased: 80 nourishing, umami-rich recipes from the kitchen of a passionate chef by Alexander Gershberg

Plant-based cooking that makes the most of your pantry with recipes that celebrate flavour and ingredients that nourish. Plant-based is your ultimate culinary guide to discovering the richness and abundance that a nourishing wholefoods plant-based diet can bring. Learn how to cook delicious and easy dishes with staple goods, such as grains, beans, root vegetables, green vegetables, seaweeds and fermented foods. To achieve a nutritionally complete vegan diet you need to include more grains, beans and vegetables in your meals. But what are wholegrains to start with? And what on earth can you cook them with? Alexander invites you into his kitchen to answer these questions and more, to teach us the secrets of plant-based cooking that is so beneficial for our bodies. Alexander’s recipes are influenced by the wonderful flavours of Japanese cuisine as well as the Israeli food culture in which he grew up. Join Alexander in his cosy little inner-city kitchen as he shares his knowledge for achieving a healthy plant-based diet that’s beautiful, delicious, sustainable and affordable. Something we can proudly regard as the food of our future.

The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World by Michael Lim and Yun Shu

A complete introduction to the hidden world of fungi. The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, bread, detergent and penicillin. Today, in the face of urgent ecological, societal and spiritual crises, fungi are being engineered to grow meat alternatives, create new sources of medicine, produce sustainable biomaterials, remediate the environment and even expand our collective consciousness. The Future is Fungi is a complete introduction to this hidden kingdom. Exploring their past, present and potential future impact in four key areas – food, medicine, psychedelics and mental health, and environmental remediation – this book not only reveals how fungi have formed the foundations of modern life but how they might help shape our future. Rich with informative texts, awe-inspiring 3D digital art and tips on how to immerse yourself in the world of fungi, this is a manifesto for the future, an invitation into a deeper awareness of our relationship with the natural world, each other, and ourselves.

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