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    Wild food tutorials, recipes and techniques from Chef Alan Bergo

    Recent Posts

    • Homemade Ramp Cream Cheese
    • Foraging Ground Elder / Snow on the Mountain / Bishop's Weed
    • Crow garlic, onion grass, or field garlic (Allium vineale) on a cutting board next to a knife.
      Crow Garlic / Onion Grass / Allium Vineale
    • Wisteria Flowers

    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

    Spring Favorites

    • Very young grey morels growing in moss in the spring.
      15+ Spring Wild Mushrooms Every Forager Should Know
    • A bowl of edible siberian elm samaras or Ulmus pumila
      Elm Samaras
    • Foraged Pine Pollen in a jar.
      Pine Pollen
    • Mugolio, a traditional pine cone syrup recipe
      Mugolio: Pine Cone Syrup

    Seasonal

    Ramps / Wild Leeks

    • A top down image of a ceramic bowl filled with green soup surrounded by wild garlic leaves.
      Creamy Wild Garlic Soup
    • A jar of pickled ramps or wild leeks
      Pickled Ramps
    • Ramp Leaf Compound Butter Recipe
      Classic Wild Ramp Butter Made with Leaves
    • a plate of green ramp pasta with butter and parmesan on a plate with a fork.
      Ramp Pasta
    All Wild Leek Recipes

    Nettles

    • Foraged stinging nettle and pumpkinseed pesto
      Stinging Nettle Pesto with Pumpkinseeds
    • Classic Stinging Nettle Soup or nasselsopa
      Classic Stinging Nettle Soup
    • Nettle and breadcrumb gnocchi with tomato and wild mint butter recipe
      Italian Bread and Stinging Nettle Gnocchi
    • Turkish nettle recipe with lor cheese
      Turkish Nettles With Cheese (Isirgan Buğulaması)
    All Nettle Recipes

    Morels

    • A welsh rarebit dish filled with baked stuffed morels topped with breadcrumbs and herbs on a napkin.
      Crab Stuffed Morel Mushrooms
    • Morel pasta with ramps recipe
      Ramp and Morel Spaghetti
    • Fried or breaded morels recipe
      Classic Fried or Breaded Morels
    • Pan roasted chicken with morel mushroom sauce.
      Pan Roasted Chicken with Morel Sauce
    All Morel Recipes

    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

    • A close up image of a baby pig head for making suckling pig headcheese
      Classic Pork / Hogs Headcheese (Fromage de Tête)
    • A knife next to a bag of frozen beef suet from a butcher shop.
      How to Make Beef Tallow at Home in a Slow Cooker
    • A toast point spread with rillettes and preserves next to a crock of preserves, sourdough bread and a spatula.
      Rillettes
    • 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.

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