3 months, 3 weeks ago

Foraging and feasting

CHENNAI: As a picky eater, my worst nightmare was seated at the looming dinner table, with an unfinished plate of now-cold rice and poriyal. Paati’s first remedy for my stomach was a hushed thinly veiled threat in folklore format, that if I didn’t finish eating, the mosquitoes, scorpions, and other poochies would assemble, steal my food and grow large, and sneak into my bed when I was asleep. Bitter, wholesome, and carefully picked, these herbs — never entering restaurant or urban home menus — revived my absent appetite, and warded away nightmares of Kafkaesque bugs. Herbs growing at the ground level have many medicinal and herbal properties to offer, explains Shruti Tharayil, founder of Forgotten Greens, at the Chennai Wild Food Walk, held a week ago. In nature’s company Shruti led 20-odd participants, whose eyes were glued to the ground level at Kotturpuram Corporation Park.

New Indian Express
Hunting in Nature’s Garden of Edibles
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Hunting in Nature’s Garden of Edibles

New Indian Express
Chennai

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