Wild Food in a Day
19 May 2012 | 15 September 2012
Foraging for wild foods has become all the rage, but if you are a food lover, Wild Food in a Day is the perfect introduction. A guided foray around the Suffolk countryside is followed by cookery demonstration to inspire you to cook with wild foods at home. Then relax over a gourmet wild food feast in our beautiful Suffolk barn.
Most of us have picked blackberries, you might even have tried elderberries or sloes, but there is so much more to wild food. If you are a real food lover, Wild Food in a Day is a perfect introduction to the abundance of wild food found in our countryside, hedges, fields and even in your garden.
Join us at Food Safari’s magical Suffolk home with wild food expert, Jon Tyler, to discover the vast range of wild foods around us. The land here has never been farmed intensively and in the ancient hedgerows we’ll find nuts, berries and seeds, in the fields and woodland fringes we will discover weeds and wild herbs like chick weed, fat hen, wild sorrel and mint. On a short walk Jon will teach you identification tips, culinary uses and historical facts and folklore. You will learn how to forage sustainably, legally and with an awareness of the dangers of picking poisonous or contaminated plants.
We’ll take our finds back to Food Safari chef, Peter Harrison, to prepare some simple wild food dishes including herb butters, teas and pakoras as well as some more elaborate dishes which we will enjoy as part of a three-course foragers feast.
You will leave inspired to look at the country side and your own garden in a new light.
You will take home a pack of wild food recipes developed by the Food Safari team as well as some useful resources including a bibliography and web site recommendations.
We also hold mushroom foraging courses in October. See Mushrooms in a Day.
Where
Brick Kiln Barn, Sibton, Saxmundham, IP17 2NE
When
19 May 2012, 10:30 AM
15 September 2012, 10:30 AM
£160 per person
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