Department of Unfortunate Captions
Jason Kuznicki on May 14th 2008
Via the Washington Post food section:
A lunch of found food includes sauteed morels on toast, steamed garlic mustard greens and fiddlehead ferns. Katie Letcher Lyle is a regular and enthusiastic forager in her home territory of Lexington, Va.
You find that toast in an alley somewhere, dust it off, it’s as good as new…
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Jason, not only is this the dept of UNfortunate captions, it’s also the dept of unfortunate tastes… fiddlehead ferns remind me tough spinach with a slight taste of rotten maple bark that’s been on the ground for a few seasons.
Ok, how would I know that flavor? Experience. I tripped over a small root on a hiking trail near Newfane VT and, mouth agap, hit the forest floor in a mess of old maple tree bark. I got up, spit out the offending taste and -boom- it hit me: this tastes just like my Mom’s “tender” fiddlehead ferns seared in brown butter.
I think I emptied the entire bottle of water just to get rid of the taste. And our party hit an ice cream store after getting back to the trail head.
Katie can keep the fiddlehead ferns. I think food groupies sometimes eat outrageous things just to be outrageous and, in their minds, adventurous.
Nice blog, btw. Great accomplishment.