Foraging
Why This Man Is Eating a Beached Dolphin for His Christmas Dinner
Last year, he ate a badger for Christmas, but this year, 76-year-old "roadkill chef" Arthur Boyt has a more marine mammal on his menu.
This Nordic Food Bible Took Three Years and Seven Countries to Write
Between running one of the world’s best restaurants and championing hyperlocal ingredients, Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson has produced a cookbook that is, in itself, a sort of foraged feast—gathering recipes from across the Nordic region.
Blood Custard Tastes Better Than It Sounds
Glasgow chef Craig Grozier is the proud mastermind behind hare blood custard: a dish channelling Scottish produce and traditional cooking techniques. “With Scottish ingredients, just get quality produce and cook it simply,” he explains.
Hunting and Gathering on the Streets of LA
I joined Pascal Baudar, a self-professed “wild culinary alchemist,” on a foraging tour through one of LA's least forest-like neighborhoods.
Hunter and Gatherer: Truffle Hunter
Alana McGee of Truffle Dog Company shows us that gathering truffles is hard work—but the reward is making truffle ice cream and quiche with your bounty.
This Week in Food Porn
In preparation for autumn's oncoming carb-load, we bring you another instalment of This Week in Food Porn: MUNCHIES’ guide to the most delicious pics posted to Instagram in the past seven days.
Refugees Are Falling Ill After Foraging for Poisonous Mushrooms
German toxicologists say the 40 new cases of fungi poisoning, including one fatality, are due to recently arrived refugees mistaking the death cap mushroom for harmless varieties found back home.
New York City's Free, Foraged Fruit Makes the Best Cider
Passersby rarely take note of them, but there are wild fruit trees growing all over New York City. I joined a cider-maker and a sommelier to forage for found fruit in the parks of upper Manhattan, which we'll press and ferment into booze.
This Chef Does Foraging Instead of Lunch Service
With a heaving kitchen garden and foraging expeditions in place of weekday lunch service, Tommy Banks structures his Michelin-starred Yorkshire restaurant around growing (and picking) the best produce himself.
This App Is the Tinder of Foraging
This ever-industrious Australian couple made a food crowdsourcing app so you never again have to brave another ungodly morning at the farmers market.
Monsoon Season Brings These Magic Mushrooms to Goa
Near-constant rain and high humidity make the highly prized olmi mushrooms flourish on forest floors across the state of Goa. All you have to do is brave the termite hills they grow on.
The Drought Is Killing Oregon's Wild Mushrooms
As Oregon suffers though the drought plaguing the West Coast too, the state's prized wild mushrooms have begun to disappear. Looks like its domesticated criminis for dinner again.