Putting a Name to What Pops up in Prospect Park: City Room’s Mushroom Photo...
Looking like so many Swedish snow caps, the poisonous lepiota grows in Brooklyn. Anne Yen/New York Times Foragers and fans of Prospect Park’s ravine know wet fall weather has led to a bumper crop of...
View ArticleFROM OUR RECIPE ARCHIVES: Autumn-Olive Jam
From August to early November, autumn-olive trees around the city are loaded with red currant-like berries, easily identifiable by their silver-stippled skins. In the current issue of Edible...
View ArticleCooking with Wild Foods and Weeds at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Making bitters On November 18th urban forager and Edible contributor Marie Viljoen will give an illustrated talk at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden about what to forage in the five boroughs and what to do...
View ArticleSummer, Stoppered: Bitters in Brooklyn
In our apartment a wintery foraging feast kicks off with the shimmering sound of a cocktail shaker. In it are a pouring of botanical infusions—a rapidly integrating suspension of red currant gin and...
View ArticleIN OUR CURRENT ISSUE: Watercress, One Plant You Shouldn’t Forage in New York...
As the weather warms, Marie Viljoen laments the abundance of watercress in the city. Though she grew up harvesting the peppery plant where it grew wild near her home in Cape Town, South Africa, she...
View ArticleEDIBLE GLIMPSES: One Ubiquitous City Green You Shouldn’t Pick
With warmer weather arriving, bits of watercress will be popping up everywhere around the city. But as urban forager extraordinarie Marie Viljoen warns, don’t pick it! Polluted city water makes urban...
View ArticleFrom a Tiny Terrace, a Book of Very Big Ideas
A South African–born garden designer whose foraging stories have appeared in our pages, her new book, 66 Square Feet: A Delicious Life (Abrams, $29.95), is an ode to living close to the Earth, mere...
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