Weekend food with Darina Allen

ALYS FOWLER dedicated her book The Thrifty Forager “to my mother — thank you for teaching me to eat my weeds” — how cool is that!

It’s a terrific book; Alys’s mum taught her how to forage when she was just a tot, the first thing she distinctly remembers is sucking nectar from clover flowers.

Foraging, or searching for food ‘in the wild’ brings out the latent hunter-gatherer that exists deep in many of our physic. Nowadays it’s as likely to be in towns and cities as in the countryside.