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Weeds Are Everywhere. Why Aren’t We Eating Them More?

Nov 9, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Florence Williams

Share T Introduces highlights the debut of a singular person, place or thing.Copenhagen’s Noma restaurant may have introduced foraging into fine dining, but the concept was hardly a new one: Every culture has its own tradition of gathering wild ingredients, from bamboo shoots in Bhutan to lingonberries in Sweden to gemsbok beans in the Kalahari Desert.The next frontier in foraging for some chefs is both more prosaic and in some ways more radical: weeds.
Weeds Are Everywhere. Why Aren't We Eating Them More?

Nov 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | Florence Williams

Edible weeds, gathered by the New Jersey-based forager Tama Matsuoka Wong, clockwise from top left: bedstraw, wild mustard, purslane, lamb's-quarters and galinsoga. Credit... Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi Fast-growing and prolific, these plants are the next frontier in foraging. Edible weeds, gathered by the New Jersey-based forager Tama Matsuoka Wong, clockwise from top left: bedstraw, wild mustard, purslane, lamb's-quarters and galinsoga. Credit...
Is Nature Your Brain’s Miracle Medicine?

Oct 10, 2024 | msn.com | Florence Williams

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How to Write a Memoir That’s Personal-and Deeply Researched

Mar 25, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Greg Wrenn |Carmen Machado |Sofia Samatar |Florence Williams

When I sat through my first life-saving ayahuasca ceremonies in Peru, there wasn’t just a puke bucket beside me. I also kept close a binder of research I’d printed out about the healing potential of psychedelics. (6 Types of Personal Essays for Writers to Try.)As traumatic memories surfaced in the hours-long medicine journeys, I sometimes felt for the articles in the darkness.
PA Environment Digest

Nov 3, 2023 | paenvironmentdigest.com | Florence Williams

10/30/23 - 115 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA: http://tinyurl.com/3yck2atu Nov.
How William Shatner Was Transformed by the Immensity of Space

Jul 12, 2023 | outsideonline.com | Florence Williams

OUTSIDE: We’re thrilled to speak with you about one of our favorite shared subjects: awe. Let’s start with outer space. When did your fascination with it begin? At a summer camp outside Montreal. I was a city boy, and I was sitting on a log. It was night, and I was looking up into the stars. There was no light pollution! I stared up and fell over backward on the log, fell right on my back. I was so awed by the panoply. I don’t know what it was—more than anything else, the mystery.
Rare Books: Summer 2023

Jun 21, 2023 | rare.org | Aimee Nezhukumatathil |Robin Wall Kimmerer |Carl Safina |Florence Williams

Summer is finally here, and that means vacations, sunshine, and of course, a great book! Whatever your plans for these warm, sunny days, consider checking out selections members of the Rare Team read this year!World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other AstonishmentsBy Aimee NezhukumatathilNamed as Barnes & Noble’s Book of the Year for 2020, World of Wonders is a meditation on nature and all of its joys and wonders.