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One of my annual family summer vacations was wading and exploring a river upstream. In one hand, I held a long-handled net; in the other, a raw potato. I'd chew the potato looking for likely rocky pockets, spit the spuds into the riverbank's calmer cuts. And wait for freshwater shrimp to emerge. Slowly, I positioned the net behind the greedy crustaceans, because they locomote backwards, and twitched the net to watch them jettison in alarm into it, and into a bag attached to my belt.
At the far end of the river, we bought fresh charcoal (wood, not pre-fab nuggets), and cooked our family's collective catch on a beach.
Mushrooms, onions, fish and game, share with us your experiences with wild food.
One of my annual family summer vacations was wading and exploring a river upstream. In one hand, I held a long-handled net; in the other, a raw potato. I'd chew the potato looking for likely rocky pockets, spit the spuds into the riverbank's calmer cuts. And wait for freshwater shrimp to emerge. Slowly, I positioned the net behind the greedy crustaceans, because they locomote backwards, and twitched the net to watch them jettison in alarm into it, and into a bag attached to my belt.
At the far end of the river, we bought fresh charcoal (wood, not pre-fab nuggets), and cooked our family's collective catch on a beach.
Mushrooms, onions, fish and game, share with us your experiences with wild food.