Wild Cooking

Now is the time to indulge in a bit of quality downtime. Create your own slice of the good life by... getting creative in the kitchen, whipping up a little something from Richard Mabey's The Full English Cassoulet... Who said the simplest things can't be the finest?

Sunday Times

Although not intended as a sequel to Food for Free, The Full English Cassoulet is similarly easy-going and personable... It manages to be both warmly eccentric and timely

Scotsman

Recommended Christmas gift for budding chefs and bon viveurs... Inventive cooking using things in every which way

Easy Living

There aren't many people who know how to make a "passable imitation of Corsican cheese" using nothing but milk, a couple of lemons and a pair of old tights. Then again, there aren't many writers like Richard Mabey, most lovable of naturalists. Ever since he first instructed us on the wonders of weeds in Food for Free, Mabey has shown himself alert to possibilities in nature that most of us are deaf to... Cooking methods are dealt with in a far more authoritative manner than in many a grander recipe collection'

Sunday Times

The critic, conservationist and botanist Richard Mabey looks at how to make do in the kitchen by using local and seasonal food to their full potential. This book includes recipes and cooking advice with anecdotal stories and sketches to accompany them

The Times

Mabey has been described as "Britain's greatest living nature writer" and he brings equal authority to writing about food in this engaging memoir cum recipe book

Sunday Telegraph

This is a helpful, down-to-earth book with some lovely ideas in it

Nicholas Bagnall, Sunday Telegraph

Mabey is a natural forager, and he describes the process of cooking with a sort of purity and simplicity

William Leith, Evening Standard

A literate and imaginative work

Christopher Hirst, Independent