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    Wild food tutorials, recipes and techniques from Chef Alan Bergo

    Recent Posts

    • The Silky Rosegill: Volvariella bombycina
    • A top down view of a bowl of ciambotta or giambotta Italian vegetable stew garnished with basil sprigs and phlox flowers.
      Ciambotta / Giambotta: An Italian Vegetable Stew
    • Maple Crab Apple Butter
    • A jar of crab apple hot pepper jelly next to habanero peppers and crab apples.
      Crab Apple Jelly and Crabanero (No Pectin)

    Foraging Tutorials

    wood nettles or Laportea canadensis

    PLANTS

    Young white pored chicken of the woods or Laetiporus cincinnatus

    MUSHROOMS

    Recipes by Mushroom Type

    • Yellowfeet
    • Chicken of the Woods
    • Honey Mushrooms
    • Cauliflower Mushrooms
    More Mushrooms

    Leafy Greens

    • Grilled corn tortillas filled with cooked quelites surrounded by plants and flowers.
      Quelites: The Edible Wild Greens of Mexico
    • a bowl of orecchiette pasta with sausage, broccoli rabe, and breadcrumbs.
      Orecchiette alla Barese
    • A green lamb saag curry in a dish with a silver spoon on a wooden background surrounded by soi, or nettles.
      Lamb Saag
    • A dried braid of wild sorrel greens with text overlay spelling the word aveluk on a black background.
      Aveluk: Armenian Dried Wild Sorrel (Dock)
    More Leafy Greens

    Seasonal

    Nuts and Starches

    • Shelled and unshelled shagbark hickory nuts (Carya ovata)
      Shagbark Hickory Nuts
    • A cluster of butternuts, white walnuts, or Juglans cinerea
      Butternuts / White Walnuts
    • How to crack black walnuts
      Black Walnuts
    • a bowl of dried acorns
      How to Make Acorn Flour
    More Nuts and Starches

    Wild Fruit

    • Highbush Cranberries
    • Wild Plums
    • Wild Grapes
    • Rowanberries
    More Wild Fruit

    Meat and Game

    • Venison
    • Small Game
    • Poultry
    • Fish and Seafood

    Offal and Organ Meats

    • Offal and Organ Meat Recipes
    • Charcuterie

    Recently Updated

    • Dryad saddle, pheasant back, or Cerioporus squamosus mushroom
      Dryad's Saddle or Pheasant Back Mushroom
    • Mushroom duxelles in a wooden bowl on a cutting board.
      How to Make Wild Mushroom Duxelles
    • a log of mushroom butter on a board surrounded by different types of dried mushrooms.
      How to Make Mushroom Butter
    • Wild Enoki Mushroom or Flammulina velutipes clones
      Enokitake / Velvet Shank Mushroom: ID, Cooking, Recipes, Uses
    Chef Alan Bergo

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    HI, I'm Alan: James Beard Award-winning Chef, Author, Show Host and Forager. I've been writing about cooking wild food here for over a decade. Let me show you why foraging is the most delicious thing you'll ever do.

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    Chef Alan Bergo

    HI, I'm Alan: James Beard Award-winning Chef, Author, Show Host and Forager. I've been writing about cooking wild food here for over a decade. Let me show you why foraging is the most delicious thing you'll ever do.

    More about me →

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