Sourdough Speaker #6: A Culinary Celebration of Wild Foods (32) Jennifer Hahn; Langdon Cook November 6 – 7, 2010 (Saturday eve - Sun morning) Learning Center T$95, D$95, S$95      When it comes to eating within your own foodshed, wild foraging is as local as it gets. Join celebrated Pacific Northwest authors and wildharvesters Jennifer Hahn and Langdon Cook for a special evening at the Learning Center celebrating the wild gifts of autumn with a meal created from the delicious bounty around us: salmon, mushrooms, berries, sea vegetables, shellfish and more. Jennifer is the author of the forthcoming book Pacific Feast: A Cook's Guide to West Coast Foraging and Cuisine, a fascinating new field guide combining wild foods identification, natural and cultural history, nutrition and sustainable foraging guidelines. Jennifer has guided several Institute kayaking trips and appeared as a Sourdough Speaker a few years ago with her award-winning adventure book Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage. She is an Adjunct Professor at Fairhaven College, where she'll be teaching "Wild Food as Ecology and Culture" beginning this fall. Langdon is the author of Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager and he writes a popular blog about wild foods at http://fat-of-the-land.blogspot.com. Langdon's book traces his journey from wrangler of pre-packaged calories to connoisseur of coveted wild edibles as he free-dives in icy Puget Sound to spear lingcod, bushwhacks through rugged mountain forests in search of edible mushrooms, strings up a fly rod to chase after sea-run trout and pulls on the gardening gloves to collect stinging nettles. Langdon's passion for wild foods has been profiled in Bon Appetit, WSJ Magazine and Serious Eats. Over several courses of delicious entrees, we will savor the flavors of the wild while Jennifer and Langdon share photographs, instruction and stories from the field. Foraging is not just a throwback to our hunter-gatherer past -- it's a way to reconnect with the landscape today.

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