My first book is now available to order. The first in a three-part series, Flora is the vegetable portion of my life, covering wild plants, herbs, spices, garden vegetables, nuts and starches. It will be followed in time by Fungi (mushrooms) and Fauna (meat). Is the book only for North American Plants? No. I wrote…
Spruce Tip Key Lime Pie
Bright green, creamy and bright, spruce key lime pie is one of the most enjoyable spruce tip recipes I’ve made. I love spruce tips, but cooking with them is kind of a misnomer. Besides making syrup (which is great) I don’t really cook them much. Just like paw paws, spruce tips keep their flavor and…
Swamp Saxifrage Shoots
Swamp saxifrage (Saxifraga pensylvanica) is a little-known edible spring plant that doesn’t get a lot of attention in foraging literature. I own a lot of foraging references, but the only one I have that describes the plant comes from Sam Thayer. Saxifrage is something to look for in early spring around April or early May,…
Ramp Leaf Garum (Vegan Fish Sauce)
Ramp leaf garum is a fermented, plant-based substitute for fish sauce made from ramp leaves, salt, water, and time. A few of my chef friends have been trying to make vegetarian fish sauce recipes using different things to replicate the umami flavor. Most of the techniques include lots of ingredients like coconut aminos, shiitake or…
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Spring is here and with it comes elm samaras: a tree seed you can eat that tastes like fresh green peas, and one of the most unique wild edibles available to foragers in the spring. Today I’ll share with you what I’ve learned about these over the past few years of gathering. I’ll go over…
Preboggion: The Wild Edible Plants of Liguria
Preboggion, also known as prebuggiun, or prebugiun, is a traditional mix of edible wild plants (piante spontanee or erbe selvatiche if you’re Italian) harvested in Liguria and the Italian Riviera in the Spring, and a foraging tradition I think it’s worth taking a page from. As I researched different uses of wild plants around the…