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Sonoma Coast Travel
Sonoma is a vast county with rolling hillsides where happy cows graze, grids of wine grapes, orchards a plenty and a rugged, rich,...
Maria Finn
Apr 74 min read
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Mendocino Coast Travel
The restaurant business is challenging in the best of times. Since 2020, these haven't been the best of times, particularly not in San...
Maria Finn
Apr 24 min read
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Morel and Kombu Savory Jam
From Forage. Gather. Feast. Photo by Marla Aufmuth It’s always seemed a waste to me to compost the morels and kombu after making the...
Maria Finn
Mar 251 min read
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Morel Mushroom & Kombu Dashi (GF, Vegan)
From Forage. Gather. Feast. Photo by Marla Aufmuth Dashi is a simple, subtle, and fragrant broth whose base layer of flavor is kombu...
Maria Finn
Mar 252 min read
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Magnolia Vanilla Ice Cream
Spring—Persephone’s season, a time of renewal and abundance. By Ambre Arneodau How cool is it to be both the Queen of the Underworld and...
Maria Finn
Mar 112 min read
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Wild Green Savory Galette
This is a simple stunner that makes good use of wild greens and those that are in your crisper that need to be used. Almost any type of...
Maria Finn
Mar 113 min read
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Creative Destruction
We are living in a time of deep uncertainty. The guardrails are off the federal government and we have no idea what will happen next to...
Maria Finn
Mar 113 min read
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Preserved Lemons
From Forage. Gather. Feast. photo by Marla Aufmuth In my neighborhood, lemons thrive in the foggy, never too-cold or hot microclimates....
Maria Finn
Mar 21 min read
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Recipe: Hedgehog Mushroom & Wild Greens Warm Salad
Early spring in Northern California offers an overlapping of winter mushrooms and wild greens like miner’s lettuce, watercress, fennel,...
Maria Finn
Mar 22 min read
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Fire, Water. & Memories
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am...
Maria Finn
Jan 213 min read
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Mushroom Song, Seaweed Murmurings and Our Animal Selves
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Mary Oliver But what if you don’t know what your animal body loves?...
Maria Finn
Nov 26, 20243 min read
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Porcini Butter (From Forage. Gather. Feast.)
If you have some cosmetically challenged pieces of porcini, whip up this butter and gift to your favorite people, or serve at a dinner...
Maria Finn
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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Porcini and Rosemary Skewers (From Forage. Gather. Feast.)
Photo by Josh Lutz Mushroom skewers are a life hack. They’re simple, elegant, and people seem to like the novelty of eating food off a...
Maria Finn
Oct 29, 20242 min read
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Shaved Porcini Salad (Serves 4)
Generally, I advise cooking mushrooms well for digestive and flavor purposes, but if you get a perfect little porcini chub, so ahead and...
Maria Finn
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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Maria Finn
Oct 29, 20240 min read
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Two Day Work Week
The theme throughout my cookbook, along with my foraging workshops and institute, is exploring how humans can become a keystone species...
Maria Finn
Oct 7, 20242 min read
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The Last Peach
Let the end come as the best parts of living have come unsought and undeserved inconvenien t - Rita Dove I’m starting to miss peaches...
Maria Finn
Sep 23, 20243 min read
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Candied Pine Cones
We are going tree on tree with this one for a more foresty experience. Instead of sugar, try using maple syrup. The result should be...
Maria Finn
Jul 20, 20241 min read
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Flaming Pine Needle Mussels
Photo by Maria Finn Recipe from Forage. Gather. Feast. This is my favorite way to prepare mussels. It’s dramatic and delicious and...
Maria Finn
Jul 20, 20242 min read
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Seaweed Butter from Scratch
From Forage. Gather. Feast. photo by Marla Aufmuth You can infuse cream with seaweed and make your own butter out of it. The most amazing...
Maria Finn
Jul 20, 20242 min read
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