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Time for a Rampage |
 Author "Wildman" Steve Brill has
written several books (and a video) about wild foods, including The
Wild Vegetarian Cookbook, from which we took our ramp recipes
for our April 2006 issue. You can visit Brill at his website www.wildmanstevebrill.com
to learn more about identifying and preparing wild foods or to buy any of his books.
The Feast of the Ramson
Ramps Festivals are set
throughout the Appalachians this spring (as they are every year). However,
ramps are threatened in some parts of their range (mostly because of
exploitation by ramps festivals!) We encourage you to explore areas where the
herbs are not threatened.
For the past 68 years, folks in Richwood, West Virginia, have celebrated the arrival
of spring with the Feast of the Ramson, which has its
roots in the ramp feeds held in communities
throughout the southern Appalachians
when the region was the
frontier. The odoriferous early spring
plants are fried up in bacon or ham
drippings to enhance the flavor of
potatoes, scrambled eggs, pinto beans,
cornbread, and other standard fare.
There’s also an arts and crafts fair
and old-time music. You can check for this years’s festival by clicking here.
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