Foraging for sumac – The latest restaurant trend in spices
I’d like to teach you about one of my favourite wild spices, sumac. All down the Pacific Northwest from Vancouver to Portland to San Fransisco, chefs are using local herbs and spices. Why? Because they’re freshest when you harvest from close to home. Lots of hot, new restaurants are using sumac to dust their wood…
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February 1, 2015
Foraging in winter – What can you eat? Fall oyster mushrooms!
It’s January in Vancouver and there are huge bunches of fall oyster mushrooms – Panellus serotinas – everywhere growing on dead or live trees for the eager forager to find. Yup, if all the grocery stores disappeared, these would be like finding gold in the forest! ID: Olive green tops, growing in clusters, thin orange…
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January 26, 2015