OldLady
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The old timers did the dandelion thing around here, too, but I tried them once and found them too bitter to handle. They slip them in green mixes sometimes in fancy restaurants and it takes a lot of blue cheese dressing for me to get them down.Goose grass greens? Fiddleheads?It amazes me how people indulge in fungus. Is your palette that frugal?And a big bowl of sauteed mushrooms on the side.
3/4 of the delicacies of the world came about when people were starving and had to eat shit that NO HUMAN SHOULD EVER CONSIDER EATING.
When you're poor, you get creative.
I remember when our family seasonally gathered different foods every year. It's almost a lost art now...I remember going into the woods with the entire family to hunt mushrooms, I remember going to the beach to gather smelt by the garbage can full, and going to the estuary as a family to dig clams by the gross, picking blackberries and huckleberries every single year, hunting, fishing, crabbing all year round. People do these things for fun but we did it because if we didn't, our diet was seriously limited.
When you've been eating beans and fry bread for about 3 weeks, mushrooms sound pretty good.
TN would die. LOL
My granny used to pick the first dandelions of the spring and make a dish out of them..my mom made it once. I think they kind of battered and fried them, if I recall.
And I've gathered Kowash with the tribewhen the kids were little, for the root feast in the spring.
What is Kowash? I Googled it and only came up with last names. Kinda like my goose grass greens, I guess--maybe not the "official" name?