On Saturday, December 13, 2014 1:55:49 AM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 09:41:35 +0200, Opinicus
> > wrote:
>
> >Free food @ $30 an excursion.
> >
> ><quote>
> >Urban foraging
> >
> >Salad daze
> >
> >Hipsters are foraging for greens in urban parks
> >
> >Dec 13th 2014 | SANTA BARBARA
> >
> >SHOPPING for salad in supermarkets is too easy. A bag of ready-washed
> >baby greens costs only $3 at Walmart, and takes no time to lift from
> >the shelf. So a new breed of foodie spends hours foraging for plants
> >in city parks and vacant lots. For what can compare with the joy of
> >ripping up the roots of a mallow plant and eating the mucus they
> >produce when boiled? Many wild American plants are edible but
> >unavailable in supermarkets: dandelion, pig weed, bull thistle, skunk
> >vine. But not everyone recognises them. Enter the foraging gurus, who
> >teach hipsters how to pluck on the wild side.
>
> (...)
>
> Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall made a TV series - A Cook on the Wild Side
> - about this, almost twenty years ago.
>
Anyone who wishes can harvest as much of this stuff from my garden as
they wish.
http://blog.chestnutherbs.com/wp-con...9/IMG_4309.jpg
>
> --
> Bruce

--Bryan