The fun, exercise and feeling of smugness when you cut/pull/pick and eat your own are just extras. But really it’s about growing the food. So it was good to read Hook, line and thinker: coastal food foraging in yorkshire.
North Yorkshire. Staithes, in fact, the next village to the north here, 2 miles away.
…an old friend, Chris Bax, got in touch: “Would I be interested in doing a weekend course in coastal food foraging? There’s a few other people coming. We’ll hunt in rock pools, go out in a boat, make sushi . . .” I saw my opportunity. No longer a slave to trawl nets and industrial ocean hoovers, I would salvage dignity for myself and the fish. The nobility of the hunt would be mine, plus some Yorkshire sushi.
Do go and read. They had a great time and ate some fantastic food. The course is run by Taste The Wild, and it’s good to know that there’s an abundance of good free food to be had around here.
Oh, I thought it was mostly about the smugness….damn.