It’s April: prime time for rain clouds and locavores alike. In a contest of extremes, I’d go with the locavores. Soon we’ll be deluging greenmarkets—the fanatics among us, forests and woods—baskets at ...

For most of us, turkey season is also fiddlehead season. So, while you're tromping the woods — whether the hunting is slow or not — keep your eyes peeled for these ephemeral edibles. Why? Because they ...

Most Ravenous Runner posts are about a specific dish. This one will be a little different, in that it's about a vegetable you may have never heard about. Fiddleheads are the coiled fronds of the ...

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(1) Trim away any brown or woody ends from the fiddleheads. (2) Wash them thoroughly in several changes of water, removing any papery husks, and dry them. Place a large oven-safe skillet or sauté pan ...

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May is the month for collecting fiddleheads, the unfurled sprouts of the ostrich fern. They are easy to spot, somewhat tedious to clean, and delicious in so many ways. The harvesting season is short, ...

In the Colorado Rockies, wild mushroom foragers do not share the whereabouts of their secret stash. And so it is in Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and the Great Lakes States – but for these residents, ...