>I have been learning about wild foods and foraging.  As I glanced through
one of my guideboks, organized by seasons of the year, I notice, the
emphasis is spring: >greens, summer: berries, fall: nuts and roots.  I have
considered adapting my diet a little, to emphasize these foods at the
different times of the year.  Does anyone >else do this?

Mary, Thanks for the confirmation.  Any guidebooks you'd recommend?

> At the grocery store, it's Perpetual Summer; everything is always in
> season (somewhere).

Sounds unnatural to me.  I guess because of grocers I don't even know when
things are
in season.  I'm not a total goof, so I really wonder what chance the
checkout people have
of eating healthy when they have to ask me what broccoli is on a regular
basis.   We're
feeding to the lowest common denominator.

> I do feed the parsnips
> to the chickens; I haven't found a way to fix them that I like.)

The Vietnamese restaurants here pickle parsnips.  I think they're wonderful
but
I don't have a recipe to offer you.  Perhaps it could be done like ginger is
pickled.

Peter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynnet Bannion" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: Newish member


> Mary French wrote:
>
> >Welcome Peter!  This  (quoted below) is something I have been thinking
about a lot lately as I have been learning about wild foods and foraging.
As I glanced through one of my guideboks, organized by seasons of the year,
I notice, the emphasis is spring: greens, summer: berries, fall: nuts and
roots.  I have considered adapting my diet a little, to emphasize these
foods at the different times of the year.  Does anyone else do this?
> >
> I get vegetable shares from the local CSA (community supported
> agriculture).  This means that what I
> get is what is harvested that week (in the winter what is stored:
> cabbage, parsnip, turnip, onion,
> potato, etc.).  And it's what grows in the area I live.   I seldom buy
> other vegetables; in the winter
> I just don't eat lettuce, asparagus, zucchini, etc.  Meat of course is
> in season year round.
> In the winter I eat apples, pears, and dried fruit (much of it
> home-dried),  occasionally a
> banana.  In the summer and early fall peaches, plums, apricots, melons,
> etc.  Yum!
>
> At the grocery store, it's Perpetual Summer; everything is always in
> season (somewhere).  I like eating
> according to the seasons: soups in the fall and winter, salads in the
> spring.  Recently I've developed a
> strong taste for lettuce, so I'm eating salad nearly every day.
>
> Another neat thing about the CSA shares: I use a wider variety of
> vegetables than I would ordinarily
> buy, and it sends me to my cookbooks to look up new recipes.  (However,
> I do feed the parsnips
> to the chickens; I haven't found a way to fix them that I like.)
>
>     Lynnet
>