light_sucks wrote:Akili Li - How do you know if something wild is safe to eat? Did your family teach you growing up? Or did you just read a ton?
If you ever come by Kentucky we should hang out forrealsy. It would be fun.
My hubs dyed the whole paper. But you could put drips and stuff for flavor. Fun fun!
I don't know the really wild stuff, I only know stuff that we've cultivated, and my family taught me how to recognize enough to spot. Like if you've planted enough burdock, you recognize it when it's escaped someone's garden and is growing in an uncultivated area. That kind of thing. I mean, if you were hiking, and you came across a pumpkin vine to the side of your footpath, you would recognize it, no? That kind of stuff.
I haven't any relatives in Kentucky, but if someone moves there and I go out to visit I will let you know and we can definitely do that!
I bet dying paper would also have the effect of changing its texture, too.... maybe I'll do some on paper, as well.
Lady River, you are making me hungry with all that description -and I don't even eat meat. >.< But you make it sound so good....