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Minneapolis-based forager Alan Bergo is the author of The Forager Chef’s Book of Flora, a culinary companion to a forager’s field guide that highlights the beauty and flavors around us. You’ll hear how foraging gave him an appreciation for the whole vegetable, the most exciting flavors he’s encountered while foraging, and the connection that he’s gained to the land through viewing it as an edible amusement park.
No one is going to die when you have a forger that knows what they’re doing.
Studying wild plants and mushrooms transformed my cooking style. I thought I cooked hyper seasonal before, but I had no idea. It’s really just made me a deeper appreciation for what seasonal food is.
If you interact with your environment, you can have fresh wild greens until basically the snow falls.
A funny thing about morels is that they’re absolutely 100% toxic raw, if you put them on a burger raw, you’re going to go straight to the hospital.
One of the best things about foraging is to look at a landscape as not just a landscape, but as an edible amusement park.
Chef Alan Bergo
The Forager Chef website
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Minneapolis-based forager Alan Bergo is the author of The Forager Chef’s Book of Flora, a culinary companion to a forager’s field guide that highlights the beauty and flavors around us. You’ll hear how foraging gave him an appreciation for the whole vegetable, the most exciting flavors he’s encountered while foraging, and the connection that he’s gained to the land through viewing it as an edible amusement park.
No one is going to die when you have a forger that knows what they’re doing.
Studying wild plants and mushrooms transformed my cooking style. I thought I cooked hyper seasonal before, but I had no idea. It’s really just made me a deeper appreciation for what seasonal food is.
If you interact with your environment, you can have fresh wild greens until basically the snow falls.
A funny thing about morels is that they’re absolutely 100% toxic raw, if you put them on a burger raw, you’re going to go straight to the hospital.
One of the best things about foraging is to look at a landscape as not just a landscape, but as an edible amusement park.
Chef Alan Bergo
The Forager Chef website

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