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The State of Foraging – Winter 2010
Iman with chibs This winter started off on the left foot – first there were an endless string of hot dry days that lingered through December. Then came the disastrous Carmel fire. And then while the...
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Elsaina
I wait all year for the months of January, February and March – the rainy days with their dramatic skies and the sunshine that can actually be enjoyed. And of course, the green! Every spare patch of...
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Wild Asparagus Yet Again
*This post was written a day before the Hannukah miracle occurred and usurped it’s posting. So here it is, a little late but hopefully still fresh…. Once again, the wild asparagus season is here. How...
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A Bitter Coming of Age
This winter has been the occasion of my foraging coming of age. I’ve been gathering edible wild plants in the hills, fields and empty lots around my home for a number of years now. At first, I could...
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Chicory Comes of Age
In a recent post, I wrote about my coming of age as a forager, marked by my ability to recognize wild chicory. Now I thought it would be interesting to show what happens when chicory comes of age....
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What You See
A few days ago, Balkees and I spent the day with a journalist from Israel’s top food magazine, as she prepared an article about the edible wild plants that are now in season. We started the morning in...
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Green Anew
How does one mark the arrival of spring when the entire winter is full of flowers? With more flowers for one thing, and the late-night fragrance of citrus blossoms teasing into my bedroom window. But...
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Gone Gleaning
Leket (or the verb Likut) is the Biblical Hebrew word for gleaning. Leket Israel is a non-profit that collects produce and food that would otherwise go to waste from farms, restaurants, stores and...
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Wild to Cultivated to Wild
What a great pleasure it is to have a hakura, or kitchen garden, next to the house – particularly when its yields peak in mid-winter. Yesterday I stripped the hakura of just about all of the swiss...
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The Other Side of Paradise
On these late winter mornings, surveying each new day I feel like I am living in paradise. The weather is so temperate, the landscape lush and forthcoming, the wheat fields exude vitality. Back west,...
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Spring Fodder
How to catch an acute dose of spring fever – open the bedroom window at 4 AM; when the chill, citrus blossom-drenched air surges into the room, inhale deeply until intoxicated. Winter is my favorite...
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