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The book is, refreshingly, tailored for the cool climate gardener. Alys Fowler (p. xi) rightly points out in the foreword: “If he can grow it; so can you.” However, Barstow’s plants are not cold specialists, and many species he describes have wide geographical ranges, so even gardeners in Mediterranean-type climates can pick up new additions to their diet. More importantly, by focusing on perennial plants, this book opens up options for those unwilling or unable to take on the intensity of annual vegetable growing. There is definitely a place for this type of publication in promoting a varied diet and sustainable home food production. Sure, this volume might only reach adventurous gardeners, and perhaps their dinner guests. But all change has to start somewhere. And it is a good start, because the recipes may only come from the next town over, or a generation away, and thus perhaps still familiar to industrialized inhabitants of Europe and North America. Barstow’s contagious enthusiasm, conveyed through his descriptions, stories, and historical accounts, made me fling the book aside in mid-sentence and rummage through my cupboards for a muslin cloth to make dock pudding (p. 262), before realizing it would be another ten months before the ingredients are in season again.

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Around the World in 80 Plants: An Edible Perennial Vegetable Adventure in Temperate Climates. By Stephen Barstow. 2014. Permanent Publications, East Meon. 304 pp.