The first and most important rule for mushroom foragers is: "When in doubt, throw it out." Do not gather mushrooms that you can't absolutely, positively identify. Leave all unknown or questioned ...

How many folks think of food when they see a patch of devil’s club, or a cup of tea when they spot Labrador growing in a boggy marsh? And for that matter, how many even know what they’re looking at?

I crouch down on the beach beside Grandson Jonah. A field of green clumps of grass-like plants we call goose tongue surrounds us. In Tlingit it’s called sukhtéitl’. I explain to my toddler-aged ...

How many folks think of food when they see a patch of devil's club, or a cup of tea when they spot Labrador growing in a boggy marsh? And for that matter, how many even know what they're looking at?

After parking our flat-bottom riverboat against the hard mudbank on the tidal flats, we walk just over a mile. It’s a 65-degree Alaska summer day. The sun radiates heat directly above us, and a slight ...

Alaska may not be a huge farming state, but it is full of food, and not only for meat eaters. The woods and beaches are rich in edible plants and fungus that can be delicious and not difficult to find ...

Me, my son Tommy, and the Kilcher Family are head out for spring adventure in Alaska. But a snow storm is going to make things interesting. We are camping, foraging food, digging clams, fishing for ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. “I’ve probably learned more about food in the past two and a half years than I have in the past ten years as a chef,” Robert Kinneen reflects.

https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2011.100077 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/cond.2011.100077 Copy URL For reproduction, many arctic-nesting migratory birds rely ...