Food from the sea

[Slow_boat]

Does anyone know of a field guide type of book on the subject of how to identify, harvest and cook seashore food, for instance seaweeds, samphire, shellfish etc.?

 

[sarabande]

Wild Food from Land and Sea (Ebury Paperback Cookery) by Marco Pierre White (Paperback - 2 Sep 1999


Vegetables from the Sea: Everyday Cooking with Sea Greens

Probly in Amazon ?

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[Bergman]

Blimey

I knew you guys were trying for a rise, but surely times aren't as hard as this.

 

[Slow_boat]

I grow my own veg because it tsates better than shop bought and now I fancy trying fresh samphire and the like when I'm sailing.

 

[Vara]

Richard Mabey..........Food for Free ISBN 0 00 219060 5

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Food-Free-Collin...0987&sr=1-3

 

[Parsonsheath]

Am told that samphire should be lightly boiled, then served with butter!

By the way, pick your own, I did see it in a grocer's once, and thought if I whipped down to Tollesbury I could have made a fortune!

 

[ccscott49]

What does samphire look like?

 

[rwoofer]

Whilst diving from the boat in Southern Brittany last year, we harvested some mussels. Went straight in the pan with a bit of white wine. Violent food poisoning for the next 3 days!!!

Tasted delicious and fresh so don't why they would have given us food poisoning....maybe pollution?

 

[sarabande]

tastes like slightly salt, very soft asparagus.

"Samphire has a high vitamin C and mineral content and is thought to relieve flatulence and to act as a digestive remedy."

Every boat ought to have some !

 

[l'escargot]

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What does samphire look like?

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This

 

[sarabande]

Does it go SNAP ?

Your picss are better ! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[ccscott49]

Thanks have to look out for it when in YUK.

 

[ccscott49]

Almost certainly pollution.