Tuesday, March 1, 2011

My New Column!

In their infinite wisdom—or maybe a moment of deadline and coffee-induced weakness—the editorial folks at Seattle Magazine have handed over a few column inches to this here foraging scribbler. It's called...drumroll..."Cook's Adventures." Every other issue I'll be taking readers on a jaunt to some of my favorite outdoor grocery stores to sample the wild foods therein.

For the inaugural column we stay close to home, just sticking a toe in the swirling currents of adventurous gastronomy. "Weed Eater" is a tour of my backyard—and probably yours too. Bottom line: Don't compost those dandelions. Eat them!

Yesterday on Seattle's King 5 TV, I spoke with Margaret Larson on New Day Northwest about the new column, taste-tested a few backyard weeds with the studio audience, and cooked up a batch of Stinging Nettle Soup. Coming in May: Morels!

8 comments:

Bikejuju said...

Congrats! Hopefully you will also get to curate a cover story "Seattle's Top 100 Foragers" for them.

Michael DeMarco said...

Bravo! However, if we ate ALL the dandys in our back yard we'd come to a bitter end.

Jason said...

What a great forum. Good luck.

Trout Caviar said...

Sounds like a great gig, Lang. Way to go. Have fun,

Brett

Mike said...

Well done! A worthy column indeed.

dp said...

How exciting! Congratulations!

Langdon Cook said...

Thanks everyone! My next column, May, will be on morels...

Hunter Angler Gardener Cook said...

Congrats, Lang! Always good to see the mainstream accept foraging. Do us all proud!