Forage. Gather. Feast.: 100+ Recipes from West Coast Forests, Shores, and Urban Spaces

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Celebrate the pleasure of the wilderness (or even your backyard) with this approachable forage-to-kitchen cookbook featuring 110 recipes using foragable foods-from seaweed love to mushroom lust and everything in between. Identify foragable foods in your own backyard to create simple, rustic recipes from the bounty of the coast, forest, and urban spaces up and down the West Coast. Featuring more than 100 recipes and chock-full of lush photography, this cookbook shows you what to do with the delicious foodstuffs you can dig, snip, or catch anywhere from Alaska to Northern California, then put it all together in homecooked meals best shared with friends and gorgeous sunset views or cooked in the wild over a campfire. Recipes include- Morels, Asparagus, Fava Beans, and Fiddlehead Ferns with BurrataBlack Truffle Pot de Cr me with Preserved Sakura Cherry BlossomsFire-Roasted Butter Clams with Seaweed GremolataSpruce Tip and Juniper Berry Sockeye Salmon GravlaxChilled Huckleberries with Campfire Caramel and Seaweed Salt Reimagine your cooking and unlock new flavors from the abundance that surrounds us.

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This gorgeous book is a celebration of wild food, foraging, and cultivating connection to the natural world. The recipes inside highlight ingredients from coast to forest and inspire you to get creative, get outside, and participate in the surrounding ecosystem; to live a healthier, more pleasurable, and more delicious life.
Emma Teal Privat and Claire Neaton, co-owners of Salmon Sisters and authors of The Salmon Sisters: Feasting, Fishing, and Living in Alaska and Harvest & Heritage

A deliciously thoughtful book with plenty of recipes for beginningor experienced foragers. Ill have the mushroom pt, cheesy pasta with truffles, and a candy cap old-fashioned, please.
Alan Bergo, James Beard Awardwinning chef and author, and winner of Hulus Chefs vs. Wild

Flaming Pine Needle Mussels! Stinging Nettle Gnocchi! Cherry Blossom Truffles! With her backwoods bona fides and visionary palate, Maria Finn has taken foraging to the next level. No matter where you live, Forage. Gather. Feast will draw you into a delightful adventure with purpose as it unlocks the layers of meaning and deliciousness permeating our woods and coastlines. Your kitchen game will never be the same. Neither will your soul.
Rowan Jacobsen, author of Truffle Hound and A Geography of Oysters

Steeped in the magic of the West Coast, Forage. Gather. Feast. is a beautiful book. Marias deeply intuitive approach to cooking celebrates an abundance of wild foods from seaside to forests. Her book will be favorite in my kitchen for a long time.
Jenny McGruther, author of The Nourished Kitchen and Vibrant Botanicals

With both simple and aspirational recipes, and delightful prose throughout, Maria Finn draws you into a deeper connection to nature through its wonderful, wildfoods. Food is the lure, but the end goal is a realignmentof human systems in sync with the pace and beauty of Mother Nature.
Becky Selengut, author of Good Fish and Shroom

Forage. Gather. Feast. encourages you to get more awe into your daily diet by spending time in naturedelicious food is the lure. Marias recipes will inspire you to head for the woods, waterways, and urban green spaces to forage,gather, and feast your way into a better life.
Tiffany Shlain,artist, author, activist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker and founder of The Webby Awards

Author Bio

MARIA FINN is an author, chef, maker, speaker, and storyteller who lives on a houseboat in Sausalito, California, with her truffle dog Flora Jayne, two tabby cats Spike and Ariel, and a native oyster garden with the collective name Billy. As a chef she creates experiences that are inspired by wild places and champions regenerative food producers. She has created menus that tell the stories of kelp forests in crisis and others that celebrate watersheds that support wild salmon. Her clients have included Stochastic Labs, Center for Humane Technology, Esalen, and The French Foreign Ministry, among many others. She is also the founder of Flora & Fungi Adventures, where she creates wild food-centric adventures in California all the way north to Alaska. Visit her at FloraandFungiadventures.com or at MariaFinn.com. MARLA AUFMUTH has been telling stories through her lens for twenty years. A California native, she brings a quirky, honest aesthetic to capture a rich, bold documentary view of real people, craft, and culture. A corporate portrait and lifestyle photographer by day, Marla is an avid gardener with a passion for capturing nature's ebb and flow through her photography. When she's not photographing major conferences or scouring the globe for the perfect swimming hole, you can find Marla wildcrafting dandelion wine, harvesting Pacific seaweed, or preserving plum chutney in her Berkeley, California, home. Find her at MarlaAufmuth.com.