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The Food At Our Feet: Why is Foraging All the Rage?
I spent the summer foraging, like an early hominid with clothes. It didn’t matter that the first thing I learned about that daunting pastime of hunter-gatherers and visionary chefs was that nature’s bounty is a thorny gift. Thorny, or, if you prefer, spiny, prickly, buggy, sticky, slimy, muddy, and, occasionally, so toxic that one of the books I consulted for my summer forays carried a disclaimer absolving the publisher of responsibility should I happen to end up in the hospital or, worse, in the ground, moldering next to the Amanita phalloides that I’d mistaken for a porcini. I was not deterred.
- Jane Kramer examines the pursuit of wild food w/ René Redzepi, of Copenhagen’s Noma, “the best restaurant in the world”: http://nyr.kr/rNPHY0