Wow it's been a bit since I've written anything - having been crazy busy with job hunting and what-not. I'm happy to say that I've procured employment with my father-in-law's insurance company and I actually like it! A bit surprising, having worked primarily in restaurants and farming my entire life. I'm currently searching for a part time restaurant position as well - keeping one foot in the industry and earning a little extra, much needed cash!
I did manage to squeeze a good book into this hectic, past month - "Fat of the Land" by Langdon Cook. I devoured it! It's smart, funny and super informative - oh and it involves food - all of the things that I look for in a good book! Langdon became a modern-day food forager to impress a girl - and never looked back. He had found what he was born to do! Whether digging clams, skin-diving for lobster, beating the black bears to the blackberries, searching for perfectly camouflaged mushrooms, avoiding the stings of the delicious stinging nettles or casting a line into the perfect river hole, Mr. Cook is in his element. Everywhere he looks - there's dinner. Even the abandoned urban lot is ripe with dandelions for bread, wine and salads - just beware of the gang that claims that lot as their own!
The most disappointing part of this book for me was that it's based in the North West - and I read it one month after moving away from Seattle. But, although many of Langdons specific quarries hail from outside of my current realm, reading the book inspired me to research my own foraging possibilities. So more on this to come. Colorado is ripe for the picking!
P.S. Check out Langdon's blogspot page -
fat-of-the-land.blogspot.com
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| The author with a basket of foraged mushrooms. |
