by staff | Nov 18, 2023 | Foraging
Happy November, food & foraging friends! As the late great Susan Sontag quipped, “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” Asheville, NC has long been on my travel to do list, and this past month I checked it off on an epic road trip to eat, drink and...
by staff | Oct 18, 2023 | Foraging
Happy October, food & foraging friends! Just like that, there’s good food popping up everywhere… fall fruits and mushrooms especially. Everyone but me seems to be finding maitake, often because they’ve got “a spot.” Despite this...
by staff | Sep 18, 2023 | Foraging
Happy September, food & foraging friends! At first I envied the culinary judges, then I pitied them: Tables were mounded with pies, cakes, cookies, breads, biscuits, chili, mac-n-cheese, hot sauces and more, requiring the cross-training of a competitive eater with...
by staff | Aug 18, 2023 | Foraging
Happy August, food & foraging friends! Every summer starts with an ambitious bucket list: camping under the stars, hitting a beach (even though I don’t really even like the beach), and a foraging wishlist featuring delicacies like black trumpets and chicken of the...
by staff | Jul 18, 2023 | Foraging
Happy July, food & foraging friends! Some places just instinctively feel like home. That, for me, is Newfoundland – a naturally rich, rugged island to Canada’s far east affectionately known by “Newfies” as the Rock. Culturally, it’s probably the...
by staff | Jun 18, 2023 | Foraging
Happy June, food & foraging friends! Everything grows on the rugged little island of Madeira. The subtropical island – part of an largely uninhabited archipelago – is just 34 miles long and 621 miles from mainland Portugal, yet feels a world apart. 40...
