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Listen Up: Where To Find the Best Bagels, Pierogies and Bukharian Breads
Seem familiar? This pizza pie was shot by our awesome photo editor Michael Harlan Turkell.This week on our Heritage Radio Network internet radio show we hit up Brooklyn author Sherri Eisenberg for her...
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An Upper East Side Forager Captures Summer in a Bottle
My lifetime’s longing to drink wine made from flowers was recently fulfilled. The preposterous wish to pluck the season’s most redolent blooms and preserve summer forever is ably, amply achieved in a...
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For a Limited Time Only, and Just for Foragers: The Pokeweed Scramble
Thinking thoughts innocent of foraging, I strolled down the broad mown grass path to Brooklyn’s Dead Horse Bay recently, focused instead on gathering old glass bottles to hold my summer’s haul of...
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Three Generations of Umbrians Deliver the Woodsy Truffle Goods
Photograph: Mitch WalkerMONTECASTRILLI, ITALY—I’ll admit that until I came here last November—to the lushly wooded foothills of central Italy, a picturesque patchwork of medieval villages sunk into the...
View ArticleSipping Through Winter: Foraged Infusions for the Cold Months
There are times, in the claustrophobia of summer, when I try to remember what it is like to be cold. In late June, when I gather up a dozen blue quart boxes of fat black cherries from the Greenmarket,...
View ArticleKnotweed
In my foraging year, April scores big points. This is knotweed time.Imported from the East in the late 18th century as a new ornamental, Polygonum cuspidatum (Fallopia japonica in the United Kingdom, a...
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IN OUR CURRENT ISSUE: Foraging for Urban Day Lilies
In our latest issue, Marie Viljoen shares her tips for foraging for and dining on day lilies–an invasive species blooming all over the city right now. She recommends them raw in salads, steamed with a...
View ArticleInto the Wild: Meet Restaurant Daniel’s Professional Forager
On a recent Sunday afternoon, the crew at Restaurant Daniel—cooks, sommeliers, managers and servers—took leave of their sparkling kitchen and lavish dining room for a picnic an hour west of the city...
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IN OUR CURRENT ISSUE: Foraging for Urban Pigweed
In our latest issue, Marie Viljoen shares her tips for foraging for and dining on pigweed–a hearty weed once cultivated by the Aztecs for its precious seeds that now takes over the city come summer...
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Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi Showing at IFC This Week
It’s not often that one finds a drama packed with equal parts human love and love of foraging, but we must say, our interest is piqued. Now, Forager tells the story of Lucien and Regina, a...
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IN OUR CURRENT ISSUE: Foraging for Autumn-Olives
In our current issue Marie Viljoen introduces us to yet another delicious and abundant invasive plant taking over the city. Autumn-olives (no relation to the green things in your martini) are...
View Article50 Years of Digging for Mold
The New York Mycological Society has had a couple of starts and stops during its 100-plus-year history, but today’s incarnation grew out of a mushroom identification course that the avant-garde...
View ArticleEDIBLE GLIMPSES: The New York Mycological Society Celebrates 50 Years
Oh, the mushroom–grand, elusive (yet shockingly abundant once you’ve learned to spot them), irresistibly delicious. For 50 years the New York Mycological Society has helped amateur fungi gatherers...
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Q & A with Whole Foods Market Forager Elly Truesdell
“The photo of the group is us during a visit to Paul’s farm with a number of our Produce Team Leaders from NYC and Westchester stores, and I’m on the bottom right row in that huge yellow jacket,” said...
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Weed Eater: Day Lilies
To paraphrase that old adage, why buy sugar snaps when the day lilies are free?As you may know from my cookbooks roundup in our current issue, I’m obsessed with Ellen Zachos’ new book Backyard...
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Hunting for Chanterelles in Upstate New York
A motherlode of chanterelles fill up even the backup paper bags.The woods in upstate New York are warm. Beneath the oaks and beeches the shade is green and the air is sluggishly concentrated, reduced...
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