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Guerilla Food, search and cookbook for game harvesters. The book provides tips and information about collecting food in woods, meadows, parks and on the coast. It is called wild foraging and the food that has been gathered in this way is called Guerilla Food. The search and cookbook for game harvesters contains tips about plants and animals that you can find without too much effort and that you can use to prepare a healthy and tasty meal.
Eating from nature
- Guerilla Food
- Different way of eating
- Remco van der Leij
- Respect for nature
- The calender
- Look for food in the woods, pastures and on the coast
Guerilla Food
Guerilla food is no different than taking plants and animals from nature to prepare and eat them. No guerilla warfare is involved. There is a movement going on around Guerrilla Food. Various initiatives around food from nature and food with healing value have led to the principle of Guerilla Food, food that heals the body: food can be a tool that increases the body’s resistance to disease. Meiko Krishok in Detroit came up with the name Guerilla Food. She does not think of the militarized ethos of a guerilla movement, but of the concept resistance. Krishok made it her personal project ?? it started in 2012 – which has developed into a global movement among people who want to eat consciously, live sustainably and eat healthy food. There are restaurants, workshops, catering and now there is also a book about Guerilla Food in the Netherlands.
Food that nourishes body and soul
At its core, it is about providing food that nourishes the body and soul, restores the mind and replenishes our vital energy sources. Guerrilla Food is food like medicine.
Different way of eating
With the guide Guerilla Food by Remco van der Leij you learn to look at food in a different way. The book is a manual for forage harvesters. It lists twenty plants and animals that you will not find in the supermarket, but that you can simply find and eat in nature. The book contains practical information, a handy search calendar per season and 20 educational and tasty recipes for game pickers.
Remco van der Leij
Remco van der Leij is a graduate of the Design Academy in Eindhoven and co-founder and creative man of Zuperzozial, a consumer label for biodegradable tableware, among other things. Guerilla Food makes grateful use of the environmentally friendly products that Zuperzozial has in its range.
He is also co-founder and creative director of Capventure: Zuperzozial is one of its brands.
Respect for nature
Remco van der Leij does not propagate tearing and pulling in nature with his self-picking tips. Anything but that. He advocates a respectful treatment of nature and gives the reader to hand-pick and never more than you need at the time. He also advises not to just leave lands, but to ask the land owner if you can enter his area.
Security for everything
As a precaution, he also mentions that you must be certain about the varieties that you pick and collect. When in doubt, consult a second handbook and only eat it if you are sure about edibility. When in doubt, do not use.
The calender
What can you encounter in which month and is suitable for picking? The calendar in the book Guerilla Food provides advice.
- January is the month to look for periwinkles.
- February is oyster month.
- March is a great month for shrimp.
- April is a good month to harvest sea lettuce.
- June is the month of the rapeseed.
- July is an excellent month to eat nettle.
- August is a great month to enjoy the dandelion.
- May is a good month for elderberry and common sorrel.
- September is the time of the dewberry.
- October we could try the sweet chestnut.
- November is a great month for a mussel pan.
- December is bladderwrack month, although every month is actually a bladderwrack month.
Looking for food in the woods, pastures and on the coast
Each of the topics contains information about the plant or animal, why it is so healthy and where and how to look for and pick it. The mussels, for example. You can find them from Waddenzee to Zeeland islands and they attach themselves to dikes, piers, breakwaters and to each other in mussel beds. A good alternative to meat, says Van der Leij, and rich in proteins. Do not get mussels in the spring, because then they reproduce and the taste is not optimal. Keep an eye on the water level is an important tip, because you don’t want to be surprised by the tide. Van der Leij gives advice on how to store the mussels (preferably eat them immediately, because then you can taste the sea best) and where to find the largest specimens. The book then shows a few photos of a girl eating a meal, a family dining at the table and a pan of mussels. The recipe is next to it. It is a tasty whole.
Guerilla Food
112 pages
ISBN: 9789021559605
Version: Hardcover
Author: Remco van der Leij
Publisher: Kosmos Publishers
Price: ?? 14.99
The book Guerilla Food is a handy book, not too big and not too thick. It contains an easy to digest amount of vegetables, fruit and sea creatures that we all know and generally ignore. It is surprising how easy you can make tasty and healthy dishes from what can be found close to home – and otherwise near your holiday home. Anyone who lives on a Wadden Island is lucky to be able to find all the ingredients within walking distance. We have already started eating from our own garden, and I don’t mean lettuce and green beans, but nettles and dandelions, elderberry, plantain and elder. The book Guerilla Food fits in seamlessly with this way of collecting food.
The photos are clear and here and there where there are people, invitingly cozy. It shows how much fun it is to go to the beach with your children to look for weeds. It teaches children that food does not come from a package or tin, but that it is plants that grow in nature. Searching, picking and collecting and then preparing the food is already a pleasant and pleasant way of shopping. Then eating together what you have picked yourself is the pinnacle of an educational and social process: you have experienced a lot together and that will be reflected in a meal that is eaten with taste. And the children also have a nice story for school.