The Wild Food Cook-Off gave the public the opportunity to taste, share and judge the best in foraged and wild foods of Portland. Individual cooks, foragers, and cart owners submitted their best ‘dish’ using local foraged and wild foods available for free in the urban spaces, waters and wild lands of Oregon.
The event provided an opportunity for discussion about local foods via foraging walks (Thanks to Urban Girl, Rebecca Lerner) and allowed people to experience tantalizing food sensations like dandelions, wild leeks, mushrooms, wild-weed flavored seltzer waters, morels, elk, eel, a homemade wild-yeast mead, and even local nutria chili!
