Kimberly James of Urban Luddite is a culinary whiz who moonlights as a Portland filmmaker and writer. If you like your recipes free with a side of insider food news, don’t miss her excellent blog. Here, in her own words, she shares a chanterelle adventure with FirstWays! ~ RL That’s me there, yesterday morning just [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mushrooms’
Chanterelle Hunting: Guest Post by Urban Luddite!
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged chanterelles, Foraging, mushrooms, urban luddite on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day Five: Oyster mushrooms and the wapato shimmy
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, wapato, Wild Food Week on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Off to dance in the cold waters of a marsh, myself and eight friends piled into a big van and set out on our quest for wapato. Also known as Indian swamp potato or arrowhead, for its arrow-shaped leaves, wapato is a bulb-shaped root vegetable that grows underwater in wet mud. Conditions seemed almost preternaturally [...]
Turkey Tails: Psychedelic chewing gum?
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged mushrooms, Turkey Tail on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These colorful Turkey Tail mushrooms can be peeled off fallen logs and enjoyed raw as chewing gum, according to mycologist David Arora, author of the fantastic mushroom guide called “All That The Rain Promises and More.“
