— Jeff Gordinier The New Yorker: In the magazine's food issue, Jane Kramer forages her way across Europe and digs up edibles with René Redzepi.
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She describes foraging in her mother's pantry — which her father had not cleaned out, "the way a griever won't empty the clothes closet of the deceased spouse" — and learning to improvise meals out of canned sardines and tinned asparagus.
Anna Castellani, Lamb's co-founder and wife, manages the shops in the city and leaves the foraging to her husband.
Mushrooms foraged on her cousin's Indiana farm were partly frozen, and thus unsuitable for serving conventionally, so she dehydrated them and made a tea.
Charles Meng: A local women suggested, in all seriousness, that we find hunters who could kill and dress the deer foraging in her backyard so that we could serve it to our families.
Foraging for her existence, she scratches for sustenance and covets a friend's position as a cook at a waffle stand, to the extent that she hesitates to rescue him when he falls into a river.
"Wild breathtaking landscapes are amazingly accessible to the Hong Kong people," she wrote by e-mail from New Jersey, where she forages on her own 28 acres, or 11 hectares, of land.
Writing just before processed foods took over the nation's waistlines, she displays attitudes that are oddly familiar: she eats local, forages, bakes her own bread, discovers organ meats, and does all the things that are now in vogue from Portland to Brooklyn.
At most, maybe a raccoon foraging with her kits.
