Early Harbingers of Spring

Early Harbingers of Spring

Happy February, food & foraging friends! What a weird winter it has been… every year we comment on the weather being unusual in one way or another, but this DC winter truly has been extraordinary on a number of fronts. The city is on track to have one of the...
The Amazon Edition

The Amazon Edition

Happy January, food & foraging friends! I rang in the New Year doing my favorite thing: having food adventures! My trip to Belem, a Northern Brazilian city known as the gateway to the Amazon, was a delight to the taste buds, to the extent I gained a record five...
Urban Chefs vs. Winter Wild

Urban Chefs vs. Winter Wild

Happy December, food & foraging friends! I don’t know about you, but these long dark days make me sinfully slothful, and I’ve been sleeping like a bear. I’m usually not much of a television watcher, but I’ve been binging a few shows...
Happy Turkey Tail Day!

Happy Turkey Tail Day!

Happy November, food & foraging friends! ‘Tis the season for turkey/tofurkey… so I thought I would dedicate this month’s edition to the beautiful and ubiquitous turkey tail mushroom, Trametes versicolor. There is a cornucopia of reasons to be...
Preserving What’s Left

Preserving What’s Left

Happy October, food & foraging friends! I know fall has a lot of fans, but I personally get down knowing the long stretch of dark, cold months ahead, with much plant, fungi and animal life in hibernation. Give me spring with all its promise of lengthening days and...
Likin on Lichens

Likin on Lichens

Happy September, food & foraging friends! And just like that, pawpaws, pumpkins and persimmons are back in, compliments of the season! The highlight of this month for me was getting to convene with my fellow mycophiles at “mushroom camp”: Sequanota,...