The Wild Table by Connie Green, Sarah Scott (.ePUB)
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The Wild Table: Seasonal Foraged Food and Recipes by Connie Green, Sarah Scott
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Overview: Connie Green and Sarah Scott’s The Wild Table: Seasonal foraged food and recipes is the latest in a string of books capitalizing on the foraged (also called wild crafted) food movement. Just as the movement has evolved and matured, Green & Scott’s book is a step above all others.
While in America the “foraged” ingredient restaurant craze is exploding, the concept has been around as long as restaurants have existed in the rest of the world. The country most known for such food would certainly be Italy, which developed the Slow Foods movement, but slow food is not necessarily about wild, foraged foods. France certainly could argue its place in history, but so could many other countries full of chefs who head out on a crisp Autumn morn to gather the day’s new bolets. Although this is a new fad on the American restaurant scene, the practice is obviously not new.
Author of The Wild Table, Connie Green launched her career as a wild food provider to restaurants in the late 70s when she was regularly turned away by chefs driven by convenient restaurant suppliers. The idea of not knowing what ingredients would be available for a menu was not attractive to chefs at the time. But soon chefs realized the value of freshness, and in particular the power of freshness over reliability or convenience. The tides began to turn.
In her book, Green recounts those early days and how at some point she ended up at the back door of a fledgling restaurant named The French Laundry. Keller bought her concept and the two have maintained a mutually beneficial and thriving relationship ever since. Keller provides his reflections in the introduction to the book.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Food & Drink
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