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\"Wild<\/a>Do you ever win competitions? For years we didn’t win a thing, not a single raffle, draw or lottery but a couple of years ago that all changed. Little prizes started to arrive in the post box…<\/p>\n

A bottle of Bailey’s, a book on Irish Slang, a couple of CD’s and a cook book<\/a>, a beautiful Greengate Jug<\/a>, a DVD player, a bottle of champagne and in 2011 Electric Picnic tickets!<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago I entered a competition over on the Irish Food Bloggers website to win a Wild Food book<\/a> and was absolutely thrilled to receive an email letting me know I was one of the winners! I’ve been meaning to buy a foraging book for some time now but hadn’t got around to it.<\/p>\n

\"Wild<\/a>
\n<\/a>The winning book was a new one from O’Brien press by Biddy White Lennon and Evan Doyle called Wild Food<\/a>. I like that it’s handbag sized and divided into seasonal chapters. For instance this month I could be looking out for Wild Nettle, Dilisk, Carrageen, Wild Garlic, Wild Sea Beet and Wild Rock Samphire and if I find them (each chapter includes tips on where to look and how to pick the plants) there are some delicious looking recipes from sweet, savory to boozy (how about a wee dram of wild rowan berry schnapps for instance?<\/p>\n

I used to think there was no point entering competitions but as a result of our little wins have completely changed my mind. On this\u00a0occasion\u00a0there were 142 responses all hoping to win one of five books being given away. Sometimes there might only be twenty or thirty other entrants. We still rarely buy lotto tickets but really, you just never know…<\/p>\n

Have you won any interesting, beautiful, expensive or strange gifts in the past?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never say never… if you don’t enter competitions you’re unlikely to win them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1798],"tags":[275,252,1813,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nWild Food Book Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Never say never... if you don't enter competitions you're unlikely to win them!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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