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About Wild and Foraged Foods
This guide provides selective course-specific resources for MET ML625: Wild and Foraged Foods
Featured Videos & Podcasts
Watch this series of videos on Wild and Foraged Foods with Netta Davis, instructor in the BU Gastronomy Program. Featured foods include Daylily, Mulberry, Goosefoot, Wood Sorrel, and Garlic Mustard.
- Gastropod: Eating Wild: Bushmeat, Game, and the Fuzzy Line Between Them This episode, we're digging into the larger story behind those words: our relationship to eating wild animals. How and why have our attitudes to wild meat shifted over time? Why is it that deer shot by a hunter in the U.S. is game, but monkey caught in the Democratic Republic of Congo is bushmeat?
- Food forward. Season 1, Episode 12, Wild food, I think I love you (streaming, Academic Video Online) Once upon a time, wild food was all there was. That’s all changed, of course, but what have we lost in our move from the wilderness that once supported us? And what could we gain by rediscovering foraging as a source of food?
- A Free Food Forest in the Bronx (streaming, Academic Video Online) Swale is a public art project that doubles as a call to action. It aims to raise awareness about food access by allowing local residents to forage food and herbs for free.
Featured Images
Left: Nuns Clamming on Long Island, Library of Congress
Right: Ramps Ready for Cleaning, Library of Congress
Librarian
This guide was originally authored by Chris Smith, April, 2023.