Wilderness Kitchen: Seasonal Foraging and Meal Prep at Camp Earnest

We are collaborating with Camp Earnest for an immersive weekend devoted to teaching you how to see, identify and make use of wild foods. Not only will we discover our region's seasonal bounty, but we'll prepare improvised meals together.  We will hear from a number of visiting local experts on how to forage, cultivate, and prepare wild, feral and local foods in the beautiful setting of Camp Earnest.

Cooking isn't all recipes. In fact much of the joy in cooking is gaining the confidence to improvise, to fully embrace the creative process – you start with what’s available from the land, garden and local farms, then look for the meal suggesting itself through these ingredients. This is working with food from the perspective of culinary impressario (and east bay resident) Samin Nosrat, with her philosophy around balancing salt, fat, acid and heat. The emphasis is on pleasure and flavor more…