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The Cunning Peasant Never Reveals His Sources

I’ve done a lot of food foraging in my time but it’s usually of the domestic variety. You know, my mothers’ freezer or pantry. So I was a little surprised to recently find myself bent over double, holding a knife in … Continue reading

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Wild Avocados

Foraging has come back into fashion. People used to do it in wartime, in famine and in the 1980’s. When I was an easily embarrassed teenager, my parents used to forage for rocket in public places. They would keep plastic … Continue reading

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