10 week farm to table intensive? Porcini foraging? Ramp bread? Yes to all the above. What incredible times you’ve experienced! Thank you for sharing these delicious stories, Elizabeth!
Thank you Aki! I know how fortunate I’ve been to have some amazing adventures and to know many people who love food as much as I do. It gives me great joy to share some of those stories here. And it’s why I love this Substack community of kindred spirits so 💕
Ah, I'd love to go foraging. When I was tea farming last year in Japan, I became extremely interested in wild mugwort, which is supposed to have medicinal properties. It was everywhere! And then when I came back to the US, I noticed it all around, too. Such a beautiful thing. I'm particularly enchanted by the picture you paint of sauteed porcinis and crusty bread that your cousin prepared. I am salivating just thinking about it!
I don’t know mugwort, but I’m guessing that it’s all around me too 😊
It’s funny, isn’t it? Apparently nettle can easily be found here, as a well as wild fennel, which I first encountered in Sicily. I think I need to find a local expert to go for long walks with!
There seems to be many more ways to tap into sustainable foraging in the UK. Claudio Bincoletto is UK-based and has done many public talks and foraging expeditions in the past. Not sure if that is still so, as I believe he now works for a high end country estate in Rutland.
10 week farm to table intensive? Porcini foraging? Ramp bread? Yes to all the above. What incredible times you’ve experienced! Thank you for sharing these delicious stories, Elizabeth!
Thank you Aki! I know how fortunate I’ve been to have some amazing adventures and to know many people who love food as much as I do. It gives me great joy to share some of those stories here. And it’s why I love this Substack community of kindred spirits so 💕
Ah, I'd love to go foraging. When I was tea farming last year in Japan, I became extremely interested in wild mugwort, which is supposed to have medicinal properties. It was everywhere! And then when I came back to the US, I noticed it all around, too. Such a beautiful thing. I'm particularly enchanted by the picture you paint of sauteed porcinis and crusty bread that your cousin prepared. I am salivating just thinking about it!
I don’t know mugwort, but I’m guessing that it’s all around me too 😊
It’s funny, isn’t it? Apparently nettle can easily be found here, as a well as wild fennel, which I first encountered in Sicily. I think I need to find a local expert to go for long walks with!
Lovely post - this has reminded me of my childhood and my father forging mushrooms every spring just outside of Windsor in his “secret woods”.
I wonder if he and my mother ever ran into each other!
Like you I have discovered foraging, although much later in my life. I find it a mindful experience that grounds me in the season and the landscape.
There seems to be many more ways to tap into sustainable foraging in the UK. Claudio Bincoletto is UK-based and has done many public talks and foraging expeditions in the past. Not sure if that is still so, as I believe he now works for a high end country estate in Rutland.