I'm so behind and haven't read Black Duck or Dark Emu - but am absolutely dying to! I love what he's writing about and I really really hope it becomes a bigger part of everyday life here. Imagine seeing native ingredients at Coles and Woolies and not just restaurants!
I have a memory of seeing a solar eclipse as a kid in Perth in the 90s, but this makes it sound like an impossibility. I remember putting a pin in a piece of paper to watch it through the hole or something? I don't know.
I'm not even certain I know the difference between lunar eclipses and solar eclipses so maybe I shouldn't be writing anything about this matter.
Things like this easily demonstrate why I'd fail on Alone.
Solar eclipse is moon between earth and sun. Lunar eclipse is earth between moon and sun. If I write it down enough times, I might remember it too, And everything needs to be exactly opposite each other and align correctly. It's pretty wild stuff. I remember the hype from that 90s solar eclipse vaguely although you could see sweet FA from the east coast. Disappointing.
We were at 97% eclipse but it was very cloudy. Incredibly, enough cloud lifted so we saw it vaguely. It got darker and even rained! We made pinhole box cameras with the grandkids and had eclipse glasses - all of which were useless. Apart from all that it was amazing!
I bought a book called The Lost Supper, Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavours of the Past by Canadian Taras Grescoe. I have yet to get into it, but he travels the world trying ancient grains, bugs, cheeses, etc. I’m sure there must be a similar indigenous book for foraging in Canada! Apart from ramps and wild berries I’m pretty ignorant of what’s out there.
Oh bummer re the clouds but I'm glad you got to see something! I hope the kids at least had fun equipping themselves for the eclipse.
And thanks for the book suggestion, I've requested it at the library. Sounds like a similar vibe to Pascal Baudar, except he seems to keep his foraging to the USA. I've got a book sitting in my TBR that is fully focused on the history and uses of plants life here, written by First Nations authors - will report back when I finally get to it. It's an endlessly interesting topic to learn about it and I love the idea of reframing history through food.
Totally agree! There was a radio phone-in today that was meant to ask a chef how to use unusual seasonal veggies that they saw in a store. It morphed into questions about ways to cook harvested items like fiddleheads and wild garlic! Did you know you can put fresh chive blooms in vinegar (white wine preferably) and it will add a delicate flavour and pretty pink colour? People are becoming so much more aware.
I'm so behind and haven't read Black Duck or Dark Emu - but am absolutely dying to! I love what he's writing about and I really really hope it becomes a bigger part of everyday life here. Imagine seeing native ingredients at Coles and Woolies and not just restaurants!
I can't completely imagine it, but they do tend to follow the trends of the consumer... so hopefully if enough people want it to happen, it will.
I have a memory of seeing a solar eclipse as a kid in Perth in the 90s, but this makes it sound like an impossibility. I remember putting a pin in a piece of paper to watch it through the hole or something? I don't know.
I'm not even certain I know the difference between lunar eclipses and solar eclipses so maybe I shouldn't be writing anything about this matter.
Things like this easily demonstrate why I'd fail on Alone.
Solar eclipse is moon between earth and sun. Lunar eclipse is earth between moon and sun. If I write it down enough times, I might remember it too, And everything needs to be exactly opposite each other and align correctly. It's pretty wild stuff. I remember the hype from that 90s solar eclipse vaguely although you could see sweet FA from the east coast. Disappointing.
Can't wait to read Black Duck! So glad there's a followup.
Me too! I enjoy his writing a lot.
We were at 97% eclipse but it was very cloudy. Incredibly, enough cloud lifted so we saw it vaguely. It got darker and even rained! We made pinhole box cameras with the grandkids and had eclipse glasses - all of which were useless. Apart from all that it was amazing!
I bought a book called The Lost Supper, Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavours of the Past by Canadian Taras Grescoe. I have yet to get into it, but he travels the world trying ancient grains, bugs, cheeses, etc. I’m sure there must be a similar indigenous book for foraging in Canada! Apart from ramps and wild berries I’m pretty ignorant of what’s out there.
Thanks for your post!
Oh bummer re the clouds but I'm glad you got to see something! I hope the kids at least had fun equipping themselves for the eclipse.
And thanks for the book suggestion, I've requested it at the library. Sounds like a similar vibe to Pascal Baudar, except he seems to keep his foraging to the USA. I've got a book sitting in my TBR that is fully focused on the history and uses of plants life here, written by First Nations authors - will report back when I finally get to it. It's an endlessly interesting topic to learn about it and I love the idea of reframing history through food.
Totally agree! There was a radio phone-in today that was meant to ask a chef how to use unusual seasonal veggies that they saw in a store. It morphed into questions about ways to cook harvested items like fiddleheads and wild garlic! Did you know you can put fresh chive blooms in vinegar (white wine preferably) and it will add a delicate flavour and pretty pink colour? People are becoming so much more aware.
Amazing! Apparently walnut shells can also be turned into a liquor. Feels like the reawakening of alchemy or something.