Shop Online for Foraged Foods

I tend to be too paranoid to forage for food in the woods myself, but it doesn’t mean I can’t access exotic items, like dried grey morels, fiddlehead ferns and fresh Mousseron (Fairy Rings) mushrooms. Longtime “huntress” Connie Green is now selling her forest finds nationwide at wineforest.com. Once available only to Napa Valley’s finest chefs, including Thomas Keller and Michael Mina, Green’s online store is making it safe and easy to experiment with wild foods.

Aside from exotic mushrooms, she also sells a line of Tamed Foods, such as Golden Enoki, Blue Foot French and Velvet Piopini. Browse the Pantry to find frozen Perigord Truffles and French Black Truffle Butter, and don’t overlook the Black Diamond Truffle Juice and Pickled Cocktail Chanterelles. It’s the most adventurous food shopping experience you’ll have.

For those interested in learning more, she has written The Wild Table, Seasonal Foraged Food and Recipes, a guide and cookbook that features more than 40 wild mushrooms, plants and berries, from prize morels and chanterelles to fennel, ramps, winter greens, huckleberries and more. Grouped by season, the recipes range from Hedgehog Mushroom and Caramelized Onion Tart and Bacon-Wrapped Duck Stuffed Morels to homemade Mulberry Ice Cream. She provides step-by-step cooking instructions and explains how to find and prepare each ingredient. With a foreword by renowned chef Thomas Keller, the book also features recipes from noted chefs, including Todd Humphries and Hiro Sone, adapted for home cooks. —Denise Shoukas

Denise Shoukas is a regular foodspring.com contributor and is the
author of foodspring’s food forager blog.

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