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First Aired - 08/04/2010 06:00PM
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Foraging celebrity and New York Times contributor Ava Chin joins Rachel on this week's episode of Brooklyn Eats to teach us about way to find food in our own backyards, literally. Tune in to learn about how Ava came to forage in the first place and find out about some of the more "interesting" plants that are growing wild in our neighborhoods. To read Ava's column in "The Local" section of the New York times, check out http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/. This episode was sponsored by Acme Smoked Fish.
Photo: Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, a wee bit of wood sorrel sprouted in a claw foot bathtub in my friend’s yard on South Elliott Place.
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Brooklyn Eats Introduction: Foraging with Ava Chin (13:50)
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Brooklyn Eats, Rachel Wharton, Edible Brooklyn, Edible Manhattan, Ava Chin, Foraging, finding weeds fruits berries that grow freely, urban foraging, Ava grew up in Flushing Queens, she has been foraging since she was a kid, she used to pull up wild garlic in the back of her mothers apartment building, she was eating snails at 2 years old, foraging was not unusual for her, her passion for foraging started at a very young age, wild mushrooms, scary place to start as a forager, classic thing to hunt for, but you need sources of verification, don't forage close to the street, NY waterways are not very safe but are the best they have been since our childhoods, epazote, fall and spring are the best times to forage, summer is the height of berry season, there is a mulberry tree right by the Prospect Park expressway, white ones have dominated throughout NYC, they are less tasty, mulberry season is now over, lots of mulberries go uneaten, wine berries, they have a strange Dr. Suessian reddish hair at the tip,More with Ava Chin (14:32)
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