What do you think, Wanderlusters? Should we make these lipstick treats the official Wanderlust and Lipstick chocolates? These beauties come from Sweet Lollapalooza, a bonbon of a chocolate boutique tucked away in a downtown mall in Edmonton, Alberta. Owner and chocolatier Brett Roy, who gave a behind-the-scenes tour of his tiny shop to me and […]
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How to Make Licorice Fern Tea
On the recent learn-to-forage Wild Edibles Tour that I took on Vancouver’s North Shore, one of the wild foods that our guide, Alexander McNaughton, identified was the licorice fern. Before you make licorice fern tea of your very own, make sure you research or learn from a forager how to identify licorice ferns in the […]
WanderFood Wednesday: Learning How to Forage, on Swallow Tail’s Wild Edibles Tour
We’re not 12 steps from the parking lot, and Alexander McNaughton has already identified more than a dozen plants we could eat. On an uncharacteristically rainy July morning in Lynn Headwaters Regional Park, on Vancouver’s North Shore, McNaughton is guiding a Wild Edibles Tour, teaching our group of mostly-novice foragers how to identify edible plants. […]