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Interested in hunting for your own wild edibles? A field guide is a must to ensure you can properly identify what is safe to eat, and what is poisonous. Here are some suggestions for field guides that will help you find, identify and enjoy wild, foraged foods in Ontario. Continue reading
I review the latest Mugaritz cookbook today in The Toronto Review of Books, first in my spring-time series on cookbooks, memoirs and fictions about wild-foraged foods.
Wild food harvesting is piece-work.
Foraged foods from the wilderness are this year’s hottest trend in natural, ethical eating. They’re lauded as more organic than organic: after all, they grow in the wild, where there aren’t just ‘approved’ pesticides and fertilizers, but none whatsoever. Growing of their own volition, these native species don’t need a farmer to tame them—and perhaps warp their purity, sapping them of taste and nutrient value.
Wild food is also, paradoxically, celebrated as the most local of foods, though the wild was once upon a time the most remote and alien of places. Continue reading
Just found out I was chosen as one of the Top 25 Storytellers in the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)’s “Storytellers: Research for a Better Life” contest.
I told a three-minute story about my research into the Canadian wild food trade. Click the play button below to hear it, or download the MP3.
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Tagged climate, mp3, research, science, short story, story, treasure, wild food, wilderness
Derek Hauffe
Read more at:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/30/painting-the-countryside-blue/
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