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WILDMAN STEVE BRILL
THE FORAGING GOURMET
author of
The Wild Vegetarian Cookbook:
A forager's Culinary Guide
(in the Field or in the Supermarket to Preparing and Savoring Wild (and Not So Wild) Natural Foods with more than 500 Recipes.
Published by The Harvard Common Press, Boston.
500 pages with five appendices:
The Wildman's mission is thus:
"The local environment has sources of foods that are delicious, healthful and organic, including herbs, greens, fruit, berries, nuts, seeds and even mushrooms."
Q. Who is Wildman?
A. Good-natured, with a sense of humor, Steve Brill has been guiding foraging tours in and around New York since 1982. He enjoys telling the story of how he was arrested and handcuffed by undercover park rangers for eating a dandelion in Central Park, a food resource area he highly supports. He's lectured in schools, for youth programs, museums, libraries and environmental groups for years. Brill is also a foraging and natural-cooking expert whose new cookbook teaches you to use nearly 150 of America's finest wild food plants to prepare tasty meals.
Brill does caution and wisely so:
"It is the reader's responsibility to identify and use the information in this book sensibly." He sums up the 29 pages of pre-foraging information with an admonishment to pay particular attention to correct identification of foods in the wild and recommends the additional use of his book, Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not so Wild) Places.
A TRIP THROUGH THE BOOK
The Wild Vegetarian Cookbook starts by introducing wild and purchased natural foods and basic methods for preparing them. He gets into seasonings, tips on adapting natural ingredients to traditional cooking methods and explains how to harvest wild foods safely.
Next he goes into recipes for "unwild foods." Tofu-based cheeses are basic to many of Brill's recipes, and he presents his recipes for Tofu Cream Cheese, Tofu Cottage Cheese, Tofu Sour Cream, and the like. While he employs a lot of in-book cross-references, he creates few, if any, unsolved mysteries.
The book is divided into seasonal sections featuring:
Winter and early spring: hearty wild greens and roots
Mid-to-Late Spring: best time to find wild vegetables
Summer with its plethora of fruits, flowers, greens and mushrooms.
Autumn: The further abundance of mushrooms, fruits also nuts.
His Table of Contents is a large, helpful, non-alphabetical, listing of recipe names grouped with the wild food it calls for, plus page numbers. His Index is an alphabetical index of types of foods and associated recipes. Here's an overview of just a few of his recipes:
WINTER WILD FOODS
Winter Cress Kimchi
To winter cress, he adds garlic, red onion, dill or coriander seed and chili paste to taste.
Chickweed Bean Spread
Brill combines adzuki beans, olive oil, vinegar,
bayberry leaves, herbs and dried epazote leaves, stems or flowers
EARLY SPRING WILD FOODS
Daylily Wine
Sugar, water, daylily shoots, lemon juice tarragon, dill, poppy seeds and a little champagne or wine yeast
Curried Dandelions
A small amount of oil, dandelion leaves,
garlic tofu, miso, fresh lime juice and
curry powder (recipe also in the book)
Stinging Nettles Indian Style
The Sauce: Chick pea flour, Garam Marsala
(recipe in book), seasoning,
tumeric, tofu, lime juice, water
The veggie: garlic, chilis and 8 cups
stinging nettle, chopped
Scalloped Fiddleheads
Spread fiddleheads in a casserole dish,
top with Tofu Cream Cheese and Bread Crumbs (recipe in book), bake
MID-TO-LATE SPRING WILD FOODS
Garlic Beans
Black or white beans, wild garlic bulbs, fresh chopped epazote leaves, cumin, olive oil and seasoning
Exotic Rice
Mixture of wild and sweet brown rice, currants, shredded coconut, raw cashews, red onion, Garam Masala, bayberry leaves and seasoning
SUMMER WILD FOODS
Mulberry Kiwi Ice Cream
Soy milk, tofu, glycerin, honey, barley malt, lecithin granules, lemon juice, vanilla, liquid stevia and mulberries
Blackberry Spiced Wine
Ala Brill: sugar, water, blackberries, spicebush berries, cloves, cinnamon sticks and champagne or wine yeast
AUTUMN
Hot Cheese Tacos
Tofu cream cheese, red chile sauce (in book), acorn tortillas (in book)
Acorn Noodles
Brown rice flour, acorn flour (in book) arrowroot or kudzu, nutmeg, marjoram, sage, seasoning, corn oil and water
Vegetarian Chicken Salad
Chicken mushrooms, celery, romaine lettuce, olives, almonds, Wild Mustard Seed Mayonaise (in book) and chopped field garlic leaves
Simply Oysters
Olive oil, oyster mushrooms, chiles, garlic, lemon juice, fresh dill, tamari soy sauce and White Oak Wine (in book)
If you, somehow, cannot roam the woods for your particular culinary adventure, this is a great book to deliver the adventure to you, also witness the sincere inventiveness of its enthusiastic author. ...
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2. Injury Prevention
3. Making Sense of Discomfort (seperating injury pain vs. misalignment pain)
4. Helping Various Injuries (Carpal tunnel, arthritis, etc)
Now, this is not a quick fix weight-loss program. In, fact, weight training is recommended as a complement to the Core Program. So I would not recommend this for anyone looking to just tone up a few problem areas or to lose 10-15 lbs. by summer or is mainly concerned about physical appearance.
Though it can easily be used in conjunction with a program focusing on any of the above (and maybe even produce those results alone!) this is for someone interested in long-term health; someone interested in aligning their body correctly and becoming healthier, more balanced and moving more easily and with more grace as the human body is designed to do. There is a basic, intermediate and "ultimate" program designed to do just that. Anyone who has passing familiarity with any type of bodywork discipline (yoga, martial arts,pilates) will feel right at home and for novices, the exercises are well explained and the pictures help as well.
I highly recommend "The Egoscue Method" by Pete Egoscue for another take on body alignment and mechanics.
Aside from the exercises, the author gives a lot of information about how the body functions, proper postures when sitting, sleeping and lifting objects, and lots of other really useful info. This book is a MUST have.
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D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is about a group of twenty teenagers who play ice hockey at the Junior Goodwill Games in Los Angeles. Coach Gordan Bombay is in a world of sponsors and business. Bombay only cares about Team USA's sponsor, hendrix, and trying to impress the board members of Hendrix.
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Los Angeles is a perfect setting for this book although California has a mild temperature. Downtown walls are covered with graffiti and skilled teenagers playing schoolyard hockey. Team USA decides to play these juveniles and actually learn from playing them. They learned how to play like Team USA.
I truly recommend this book although it hasn't won a single award. Jordan Horowitz' style of writing is adventurous but exciting.
Team USA is led by Adam Banks and Charlie Conway, longtime hockey stars. USA fans are shocked when Banks gets checked by Olaf Sanderson from the Vikings of Iceland. Banks tries and proves to Coach Bombay that he can play. He says to Coach Bombay that scouts are watching and he just has to play.
Jordan Horowitz was inspired by the 1980 Team USA Olympic win over Russia and so he wrote this book. This book is like most hockey books by Matt Christopher. I've read all of Matt Christopher's hockey books and D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is much better. D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is more suspenseful and exciting. I am comparing Christopher and Horowitz because they are both very good sports, although Christopher has written many more books.
Horowitz writes with an athletic edge, because he must know a lot about sports. H eknows what he's writing about. he knows kids will enjoy his books. That's what I love about him.
I was surpised how much hockey is mental and not physical. Even though I have not played much hockey myself. I learned this from the book and hopefully you will, too.