Bush Food: Aboriginal Food and Herbal Medicine

Rating:
Summary: A4 Colour Bush Food. Good Resource
Review: The book is a really informative resource and quite comprehensive on the general geographical locations and types of food available.

There were a few areas where it could have been better and areas where you would need supplementary material if you are really interested in finding out how to identify Australian Native Plants as food sources:

1) Needs to have pictures and descriptions identifying all species listed in Appendix 1 as food sources. Too small a percentage have associated pictures, descriptions or topographic locations where the plants are to be found.

2) Need to have defined methods of catching and killing the animals. Eg Lizards. it is not explained how to catch the damn things without being bitten. (ditto the snakes)

3) Need to include more detail on how to prepare foods which have been gathered.

All in all, a great book. Very informative and entertaining, but not enough to go bush with, unless you have the aforementioned supplimentary material.