Eats Wild Episode 5: Foraging for flavor and for mental health

“I am a human who yearns to remember that she is part of nature, in a way that I think our culture is trying to make me forget.” This week on the second SUMMER episode of our Eats Wild series, we head out into the woods with two amateur mushroom hunters. Ileana Haberman shares her story of seeking solace gathering chanterelles in the woods during the worst of the pandemic, and Carl Pearson walks us through the basics for positive identification of edible fungi–in this case, a bi-color bolete. Then chef Nick Detrich whips up an elegant salt-baked beet dish featuring wild purslane and wood sorrel from my backyard.

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Eats Wild Episode 5: Foraging for flavor and for mental health is an episode from Earth Eats: Real Food, Green Living by Indiana Public Media.

This episode is 51:08 long.

This episode was published on Jun 27, 2025.

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