{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"2022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow's Research Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022","author_name":"Marina","author_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/author\/admin\/","title":"Local Heroes","html":"[caption id=\"attachment_2554\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"455\" caption=\"Foraging in Marine Park in early December\"]\"\"[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nI am co-conceiving a dinner that takes a new look at the \"local\" (info in next post) with Michael Connor<\/a> and Alex Freedman at The Artist's Institute<\/a> (Anthony Huberman\/Hunter College space in the LES) on Monday Jan 16. A lot of amazing people were involved -\r\n\r\n- Environmental artist Oliver Kellhammer<\/a> helped us forage at Marine Park, thanks to good tips from Wildman Steve Brill<\/a>\r\n\r\n- Andrew Nundel, a forager in Gloucester MA , whom I met through the Forage Ahead Yahoo Group<\/a> generously donated his stash of frozen Japanese knotweed\r\n\r\n- The chefs Lauryn and Albert from Lucullan Foods<\/a> are fabulous and<\/em> exciting to be around, they know so much are are truly adventurers\r\n\r\n- and Bun Lai, the owner and genius behind New Haven's Miya's Sushi<\/a>, whom I found through this\u00a0 GOOD article:\u00a0 \"When Life Gives You Invasive Species, Make Sushi\"<\/a>\u00a0 that\u00a0 10 different people sent me. Bun Lai is a gustatory superhero.\r\nHere's the text he sent Michael today:\r\n
I just finished foraging.\u00a0 I caught roughly fifty Asian shore crabs, thirty wild oysters and a bunch of wild rock seaweed.\u00a0\u00a0 I also made you all five bottles of sake from fresh pine needles.\u00a0 Native Americans used to eat the inner cambrium of pine during winter months when scurvy would be a problem because pine contains a lot of vitamin c.\r\n\r\nCheck out Bun Lai's blog <\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n ","type":"rich"}