{"product_id":"forage-gather-feast-isbn-9781632174864","title":"Forage. Gather. Feast.","description":"\u003cb\u003eCelebrate the pleasure of the wilderness (or even your backyard) with this approachable forage-to-kitchen cookbook featuring 110 recipes using foragable foods—from seaweed love to mushroom lust and everything in between.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIdentify foragable foods in your own backyard to create simple, rustic recipes from the bounty of the coast, forest, and urban spaces up and down the West Coast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing more than 100 recipes and chock-full of lush photography, this cookbook shows you what to do with the delicious foodstuffs you can dig, snip, or catch anywhere from Alaska to Northern California, then put it all together in homecooked meals best shared with friends and gorgeous sunset views or cooked in the wild over a campfire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecipes include: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMorels, Asparagus, Fava Beans, and Fiddlehead Ferns with Burrata\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Truffle Pot de Crème with Preserved Sakura Cherry Blossoms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFire-Roasted Butter Clams with Seaweed Gremolata\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpruce Tip and Juniper Berry Sockeye Salmon Gravlax\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChilled Huckleberries with Campfire Caramel and Seaweed Salt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReimagine your cooking and unlock new flavors from the abundance that surrounds us.\u003ci\u003e\"Forage. Gather. Feast.\u003c\/i\u003e has me swooning. With over 100 recipes that use foraged elements specifically from the West Coast, it might be the cookbook of my dreams.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Bookshop Santa Cruz newsletter \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Finn, a chef, author, and speaker, is a foraging savant and through her company, Flora \u0026amp; Fungi Adventures, she molds the wild food–curious in her image. Her cookbook, \u003ci\u003eForage. Gather. Feast: Recipes from West Coast Forests, Shores, \u0026amp; Urban Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e, due out in April, will contain more than 100 ways to prepare the bounty.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003e7x7 magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Finn’s debut cookbook celebrates the culinary gifts that grow and thrive along the coast, throughout the forest and in your own backyard. . . . Filled with ideas for using everything from wild greens and berries to mushrooms and seaweed, this fascinating book will open your eyes to the edible bounty that awaits just beyond your doorstep.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Edible Marin \u0026amp; Wine Country\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This gorgeous book is a celebration of wild food, foraging, and cultivating connection to the natural world. The recipes inside highlight ingredients from coast to forest and inspire you to get creative, get outside, and participate in the surrounding ecosystem; to live a healthier, more pleasurable, and more delicious life.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Emma Teal Privat and Claire Neaton, co-owners of Salmon Sisters and authors of \u003ci\u003eThe Salmon Sisters: Feasting, Fishing, and Living in Alaska\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHarvest \u0026amp; Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A deliciously thoughtful book with plenty of recipes for beginning or experienced foragers. I’ll have the mushroom pâté, cheesy pasta with truffles, and a candy cap old-fashioned, please.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alan Bergo, James Beard Award–winning chef and author, and winner of Hulu’s \u003ci\u003eChefs vs. Wild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Flaming Pine Needle Mussels! Stinging Nettle Gnocchi! Cherry Blossom Truffles! With her backwoods bona fides and visionary palate, Maria Finn has taken foraging to the next level. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rowan Jacobsen, author of \u003ci\u003eTruffle Hound\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Geography of Oysters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Steeped in the magic of the West Coast, \u003ci\u003eForage. Gather. Feast\u003c\/i\u003e. is a beautiful book. Maria’s deeply intuitive approach to cooking celebrates an abundance of wild foods from seaside to forests. Her book will be favorite in my kitchen for a long time.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jenny McGruther, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Nourished Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVibrant Botanicals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“With both simple and aspirational recipes, and delightful prose throughout, Maria Finn draws you into a deeper connection to nature through its wonderful, wild foods. Food is the lure, but the end goal is a realignment of human systems in sync with the pace and beauty of Mother Nature.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Becky Selengut, author of \u003ci\u003eGood Fish\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShroom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Forage. Gather. Feast.\u003c\/i\u003e encourages you to get more awe into your daily diet by spending time in nature—delicious food is the lure. Maria’s recipes will inspire you to head for the woods, waterways, and urban green spaces to forage, gather, and feast your way into a better life.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tiffany Shlain, artist, author, activist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker and founder of The Webby Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARIA FINN\u003c\/b\u003e is an author, chef, and maker who lives on a houseboat in Sausalito, California, with her truffle dog, two tabby cats, and a native oyster garden. She creates food, art, and storytelling experiences inspired by ecosystems like kelp forests and redwood watersheds; her work explores themes like love, awe, desire, and grief in regard to our relationship with the natural world. She founded Flora \u0026amp; Fungi Adventures, where she hosts wild food-centric adventures in California all the way north to Alaska. Visit her at MariaFinn.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARLA AUFMUTH\u003c\/b\u003e has been telling stories through her lens for twenty years. A California native, she brings a quirky, honest aesthetic to capture a rich, bold documentary view. Marla is also an avid gardener with a passion for capturing nature’s ebb and flow through her photography. You can often find Marla wildcrafting dandelion wine, harvesting Pacific seaweed, or preserving plum chutney. Visit her at MarlaAufmuth.com.\u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The world is a huge place. How will you know where you fit in unless you explore beyond your comfort zone?” —Sir Ernest Shackleton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePlanet earth’s beauty and pleasure is everyone’s birthright. Ripe berries and chanterelles for all! Going out into nature to find your own food is at once a primal part of our being and yet has grown unfamiliar. Sure, you may get stared at snipping spruce tips or reaching into overgrown blackberry bushes as if performing a deviant public act. But a deep part of us still yearns for berry-stained hands and the sizzle of food cooking on live fire, and foraging is a way to make space for beauty in our lives and preparing delicious edibles creates pleasure.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnd being outdoors is good for you in so many ways. It reduces the stress hormone cortisol, it can lower your heart rate, and reduce some types of illness, improves sleep, and more. But there are the non-quantifiable reasons for heading into nature that are just as important. It’s fun and keeps us learning and curious and engaged with our surrounding world. And it helps us tune in and connect to the ancient cycles of our planet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis book guides you into the woods and water’s edge for an adventure with purpose. It helps you see delicacies hanging over the sidewalk or slipping through the cracks. Harvesting wild food is an unscripted experience that requires us to follow nature’s rhythms of tides and seasons, rain and dry spells. If we do this, she gives us incredible, nutritious food for FREE. Those $45.00 a pound porcini? You can go find your own! Pickle rosehips and oranges, make seaweed butter, ferment your own vinegar blends—you’ll have a very esoteric pantry that makes the simplest dishes more intriguing. Find miners lettuce and stinging nettles—the delicious specialties that still have the bitter, sour, yummy complexity of food before it was dumbed down for uniformity in grocery stores. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eForaging is the antidote to our too-too busy lives and crazy, convoluted, complex food systems. And when we are out in nature, we learn to live by nature’s s rules. Check the tides before going for clams or seaweed. Notice rain patterns for mushrooms. Learn what confluences between fresh and saltwater that native oysters love. What if we accepted the generosity of planet earth with reverence and passed it along? Could we then start becoming a keystone species that improves habitat for all other life on earth? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen going out to find your own food, you may get wet, or muddy, or scratched, or scared. Often, you will get tired. You may find nothing, or so much you can barely carry it home. But it’s in these dark hollows, amidst bushwhacking, or escaping waves in the impact zone you will meet parts of yourself you’ve long lost, and even discover new aspects of yourself. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSharing the wild food you find with others is also sharing these newly discovered aspects of you with friends and family. The more time you spend in nature, the more you will recognize yourself, refracted back to you from a thousand different places—rays of light filtering through branches, mushrooms opening to release their spores, ferns unfurling, the carcass of deer left by a predator, the sting of a bee, a modest orchid, the hush of sunrise. No aspect is bad or good, they just are parts of a whole and you’ll start seeing them in yourself. Rachel Carson wrote that our blood has the same saline content as the ocean; in the book, in the book \u003ci\u003eScent and the Scenting\u003c\/i\u003e, Dog William Syrotuck wrote that it’s estimated our skin has the same bacterial content as the soil. We are fractals of planet earth and deep down, we crave nature. This book encourages you to rewild yourself and eat inspired by our surrounding ecosystems. This I termed “Ecosystem Based Eating.” Create dishes according to the ecosystems where you found the food; as well, follow nature as a guide for what to eat. Does your plate look like an intertidal zone, a boreal forest? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow to Use This Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book does not have any recipes where meat and poultry are the center of the plate. It’s not intentionally a pescatarian or vegetarian cookbook. In the woods, there are nuts and fungi; and at the coast, there are underwater seaweed, small fish, bivalves. I try to mimic nature as much as possible on the plate. I’m not a hunter. I’m not against ethical hunting for food. I just don’t do it. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI strongly believe that food systems that benefit the earth are also good for our bodies—hello oysters and truffles! And, by mimicking ecosystems, we have a deeper sense of the unique and beautiful places where we live. A big pork chop or chicken breast at the center of the plate doesn’t tell a story of these landscapes we love. Wild plums, morel mushrooms, kombu, and fir tips tell the story I want to be a part of. This is why you’ll find recipes organized by coastal, forest, and urban ecosystems. So this book is plant forward, low meat, and regenerative-focused foods. There are options for gluten free, keto-ish and vegan included in some of the recipes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThink of this book as part instruction and part inspiration. It is by no means a comprehensive guide to wild foods, and it doesn’t advocate trying to “live off the land” and eat primarily wild foods. There are too many people for that. Rather, the foraging tips, recipes and DIY’s are meant to get you outside, interacting with the natural world and translating that experience in your food. If you just harvest salt once a year, every time you sprinkle it over your dishes, you’ll have a memory of being at the ocean’s edge, pelicans flying by in formation, the spout of a whale in the distance. The goal of this book is for you to fall in love with nature in the most visceral possible way – through food. The recipes are simple, yet the ingredients a bit esoteric. Some you may be able to find seasonally at the farmers market or grocery store, but the fun is in finding your own patches of rosehips and huckleberries.","brand":"Sasquatch Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302932140261,"sku":"NP9781632174864","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781632174864.jpg?v=1767727556","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/forage-gather-feast-isbn-9781632174864","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}