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Shopping where nothing has a price tag and everything can kill you.
means Searching the wild for food—mushrooms, berries, roots, greens—instead of buying it from a store.
from From French 'fourrage' meaning fodder or animal feed, tracing back to the Old French 'feurre' (straw, fodder) and ultimately a Germanic root related to 'fodder' itself. Originally the word was about gathering food for horses and livestock; only later did it widen out to cover people rummaging through forests and hedgerows for their own dinner.
- deadly lookalikes
- Death cap mushrooms taste fine before they fail your liver
- ancient resume
- Humans foraged for 95% of our species history
- modern comeback
- High-end restaurants now pay chefs to forage weeds
- golden rule
- When in doubt, do not eat it