Tonight! Pacific Feast: Wild Food Foraging and Cuisine

Pacific Feast: Wild Food Foraging and Cuisine
Event Date: 11/17/2010

Washington Native Plant Society November 17th Program Pacific Feast: Wild Food Foraging and Cuisine When it comes to eating within your own foodshed, wild foraging is as local as it gets. Come explore 50-plus common edible native plants from mountain to sea--with award-winning author and naturalist, Jennifer Hahn. Jennifer will share slides and stories from her new book PACIFIC FEAST: A Cook’s Guide to West Coast Foraging and Cuisine. Discover a host of delicious and nutritious wild and weedy greens, trees, ferns, berries, flowers, mushrooms, sea veggies and shellfish that thrive along the Pacific Coast. Enjoy a refreshing blend of natural history, First Nation uses, personal anecdotes, nutrition, I.D. \"field notes,” sustainable foraging guidelines, recipes and samples. Book signing after presentation. Jennifer Hahn is a writer, illustrator, wilderness guide, and naturalist who lives in Bellingham. She was the winner of the Barbara Savage Miles from Nowhere Memorial Award for her book Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage. http://jenniferhahn.net The Koma Kulshan Chapter of the WA Native Plant Society will hold the November 17th meeting at 7pm at the Sustainable Living Center, located in the ReStore Building at 2309 Meridian St. Park in the back, go up to the second floor from the stairway in the back.