DO THE foods we buy from supermarkets or even growers' markets really provide the nutritional requirements we need to maintain good health?
In his new book, Wild Foods, Vic Cherikoff explores the consequences of eating a modern diet sprayed with pesticides and lacking in essential dietary fibre, proteins and micronutrients.
You'll find how wild foods can help correct imbalances and discover a myriad of wild plants to boost your health.
For this book, Cherikoff defines "wild foods" as those that are botanically indigenous to Australia or that have been here for more than 6000 years - "all of which, prior to the invasion by the British, formed the nutritional resources of Indigenous Australians," he writes.
Chapters look at food now and then, a wild food menu, and plants with predicted potential as new food species.
One chapter is devoted to the 12 tastes in wild foods as a guide to cooking with them.
Cherikoff is credited as a pioneer of the Australian wild food industry.
- Wild Foods - Looking back 60,000 years for clues to our future survival, by Vic Cherikoff, New Holland Publishers, RRP $29.99
