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Found Food: Top Chefs Embrace Wild Eats

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We all know how much I love foraging, so I’ve been meaning to share this New York Times story on top chefs looking to the wild for new ingredients:

Increasingly, in an era when truffles are farmed and Whole Foods sells fresh porcini, the ingredients that chefs seek are not the ones anyone can order; they’re the ones that few have ever heard of. They are the most unusual, not the most expensive. And even if they’re plentiful, they’re exclusive: you need either to know where to go and what to gather, or who to call….

The professional kitchen isn’t known as a sentimental place, but foraging seems to stir these kinds of passionate feelings. “It taps into something emotional — you’re nourished by the place where you live,” Mr. Patterson said. “Trends come and go. This is different.”

As always, make sure you check out the slideshow.

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