Friday, September 30, 2011

Acorns: California's Original Cuisine




It's acorn season. They're falling by the barrel-load into our yards and parks, littering the ground with squirrel food. But Jolie Lonner Egert doesn't see this as a nuisance. She calls acorns the "original California cuisine." And the Fairfax-based ethnobotanist is betting that they'll be the next locavore sensation. "I think in 10 years, you'll be able to walk into any farm-to-table restaurant and order acorn pancakes," she said.

Egert runs Go Wild, an ecological education company that offers classes on foraging and preparing edible wild plants. . .



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/27/DDPN1L7GQU.DTL#ixzz1ZS4FvLfv

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