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How Do Things Pan Out?
Properly cared for cast iron pots can last for centuries When Europeans began to migrate into tracts of North America what was the one thing they had the native Americans wanted more than anything...
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Cooking Like A Caveman
The Mesolithic Era is not a sexy topic that will win friends and influence people at parties. But, it is something foragers should think about. If you are a survivalist it is mandatory knowledge....
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Before There Were Baked Beans
Baked beans is about as traditional a New England meal as one can get… That and boiled dinners. Every Sunday for decades we had boiled dinner. Potatoes, onions, carrots, cabbage, some piece of meat,...
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Solar Cooking
Commercially made solar oven with extra reflectors Solar cooking. Something new under the sun Once you cook your first solar meal, you’re hooked. Does it cost less than conventional methods? It can,...
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Eggs
Chicken and Ostrich eggs Eggs for Survival and Food Eggs would seem like a simple foraging topic and it is, and it is not. My copy of the U.S Department of the Army Field Manual on Survival doesn’t...
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Cooking without Pots or Pans
How did primitive man cook without pots or pans? Mesolithic Cooking: It’s the Pits How do you cook without pots or pans? It’s a question our distant ancestors never asked because pots and pans didn’t...
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Cast Iron Cookery, Buying and Restoring
Black cast iron pans are green because they last so long Cast Iron Pans: Yesterday is tomorrow Many books have been written about cast iron cookware. I will try to say a few things here perhaps not...
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Vinegar: Your own unique strain
The vinegar mother above —three inches across and a half in thick — was collected from the wild in Lake Mary, Florida, in 1996 and has been making vinegar since. Normally white to translucent, this...
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Acorn Grubs: Bait, Trailside Nibble
Yes, this is about eating grubs. Deal with it. Flexible, the grub squeezes out of a small hole. Without the expertise of Charles E. Williams and the Michigan Entomological Society, Department of...
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Alligator a la Carte
Young alligator swimming among nuphar leaves and blossom. I caught a small alligator once. I was fishing for bass in a golf course water trap behind an apartment complex in Titusville, Florida (that’s...
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Ringless Honey Mushrooms
Ringless Honey Mushroom, Armillaria tabescens Do not eat any mushroom without checking in person with a local, live, mushroom collector. The first time I thought I saw the Ringless Honey Mushroom was...
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Winter Foraging
A frozen cranberry, blueberry’s wet cousin, is still tart and tasty. The thermometer was near zero one day when I was on ice skates collecting frozen cranberries. Bonfires and hot beverage make skating...
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Apples, Wild Crabapples
Wild Apple tree in October in Pownal Maine. Photo by Green Deane Malus sieversii, Hard-Core Apples Wild Apples are one of the most common over-looked foraging foods. People take one taste, spit it out,...
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Tamarind
A pair of fruiting Tamarind Trees. Photo by Green Deane I drove past a dozen Tamarind trees for a decade or so until I looked up one day. The lumpy brown pods on pretty trees had finally caught my...
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