Beach Harvest - Wild Food from Sea and Coast

Beach Harvest - Wild Food from Sea and Coast by Svend Hamann

Beach Harvest guides you in catching, harvesting, and preparing many of the ingredients you can find along the sea and Danish coasts. The book explores the rich variety of coastal herbs, fish, seaweed, shellfish, and berries found along the shores, showing you how to bring nature’s flavorful ingredients into your kitchen.

As a reader, you gain detailed insight into many different types of coastal herbs, fish, oysters, seaweed, crabs, and mussels. The book covers everything from their natural habitats and characteristics to the best catching methods and their seasonal availability. Additionally, you get tips on how to use wild ingredients in your cooking and prepare them both at home and outdoors. The ingredients are described and presented, divided by each of the four seasons, giving you a clear overview of which wild ingredients are in season.

The book is aimed at anyone interested in cooking, nature, sustainability, and natural ingredients, and it confidently and elegantly guides the reader to gather and catch nature’s delicacies through foraging, recreational fishing, underwater hunting, oyster hunting, and much more.

If you are a beginner, the book is ideal as it contains a comprehensive section on methods and equipment, as well as important information about rules and safety.

Beach Harvest is a truly excellent, well-crafted, and well-written book with stunning photos that illustrate many of the wild ingredients you can encounter on the beach and along the coasts.

The book’s author, Svend Hamann, has over 35 years of experience with outdoor and coastal life and has specialized over the years in gastronomy based on wild ingredients from nature. He is behind the company Strandhøst, which offers foraging trips, oyster tours, corporate events, and many other activities that combine nature experiences and “wild food.”

Specifications for Beach Harvest - Wild Food from Sea and Coast - Svend Hamann:

Author: Svend Hamann

Number of pages: 145

Year of publication: 2024