Tuesday, November 6, 2012

THINGS TO EAT IN BIG SUR


California quail, bay nuts, gray squirrels, ground squirrels, and raccoons. Acorns from black, tan and live oaks. Fiddleheads of ferns, stinging nettle, miner’s lettuce, coyote mint, yerba santa, and yerba buena. Rattlesnakes, and gopher snakes. Lizards: whip-tails, blue bellies and western fence. Yucca roots and yucca fruit. Blackberries, huckleberries, elderberries, and elderflowers. Abalone: red and black. Purple sea urchins, limpits, green-lipped muscles, turban snails, and gull eggs. Sea palm and chia seeds. Robins, great blue herons, egrets, fresh green pine-tips, and rattlesnake grass. Sea lions, harbor seals, eel, steelhead trout, crayfish, and purple crabs. Chantrelle and morel mushrooms. Termites, grasshoppers, crickets, and cicadas. Black-tailed deer and wild boar. Larval insects, bumble bee honey, and sea salt. Manzanita berries, pocket gophers, and redwood sorrel.