These blog posts are not meant to be used to identify plants to eat, they are meant for educational purposes to learn about different wild foods used by people who are able to identify them. If you are interested in learning how to forage your own wild foods, you need to learn as much asContinue reading “Wild Foods: Spruce Trees”
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Wild Foods: Mulberries
In this new series of blog posts, I will be discussing different foods that are available to be foraged in the wild and aren’t commonly cultivated or available in most grocery stores. In this series I will go over the cultural significance of these foods, what part is eaten and share different ways in whichContinue reading “Wild Foods: Mulberries”
Community-Based Food Systems: A Benefit or a Detriment?
Walk into your local grocery store, what do you see? Aisles and aisles of food, the option to eat anything you could ever want. This is a relatively new experience in our existence, many people see this abundance as a positive thing. We no longer have to go out and forage or hunt food forContinue reading “Community-Based Food Systems: A Benefit or a Detriment?”
The Restaurants of the Future: Community and Sustainability Focused
Over the past year since my last blog post, I’ve quit my old job, tried to make a living off of my writing, failed. Worked as a Doordash Driver and home cook, and finally started a new job as a Front of House Manager at a casual/fine dining sushi restaurant. In this time, I’ve beenContinue reading “The Restaurants of the Future: Community and Sustainability Focused”
Cooking and Gardening: The Dynamic Duo
When I was in college, I had a hard time deciding what I wanted to study. I started out in biology, but after a few semesters lost interest. The actual classes on biology I loved, but the other classes I had to take like Chemistry and Physics, I had a hard time caring about. IContinue reading “Cooking and Gardening: The Dynamic Duo”
Sustainability in the Restaurant Industry
One thing that I am torn about is whether or not having restaurants is a good or a bad thing. On one hand they are a great way to bring people together allowing them to be social. They can also help express different cultures and provide immigrant communities with a “taste of home”, or somethingContinue reading “Sustainability in the Restaurant Industry”
The Cultural Chef 