{"id":2548,"date":"2012-01-14T14:16:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T18:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2012-02-01T23:56:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T03:56:18","slug":"bun-lai-is-my-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2012\/01\/14\/bun-lai-is-my-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Foraging in Marine Park in early December<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I 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 –<\/p>\n

– Environmental artist Oliver Kellhammer<\/a> helped us forage at Marine Park, thanks to good tips from Wildman Steve Brill<\/a><\/p>\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<\/p>\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<\/p>\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.
\nHere’s the text he sent Michael today:<\/p>\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.<\/p>\n

Check out Bun Lai’s blog <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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  I am co-conceiving a dinner that takes a new look at the “local” (info in next post) with Michael Connor and Alex Freedman at The Artist’s Institute (Anthony Huberman\/Hunter College space in the LES) on Monday Jan 16. A lot of amazing people were involved – – Environmental artist Oliver Kellhammer helped us forage … <\/p>\n

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