Culture & Cuisine of Shoreline Edibles at Camp Orkila

Marine Science Lecture Series Presents lecture and book signing with Jennifer Hahn

Seaweed salad? Pickled kelp? “When the tide is out, the table is set” goes the old Coast Salish saying. On the evening of Tuesday, October 12 at 7:00 p.m., Jennifer Hahn, writer, illustrator, wilderness guide, and naturalist will teach you how to spot the “food at your feet” as well as the culture and cuisine of shoreline edibles.

When it comes to eating within your own food shed, wild foraging is as local as it gets. This is your opportunity to explore over 50 common edible native plants with an award-winning author and naturalist. Jennifer will share slides and stories from her new book Pacific Feast: A Cook’s Guide to West Coast Foraging and Cuisine. Discover a host of delicious and nutritious wild and weedy greens, trees, ferns, berries, flowers, mushrooms, sea veggies and shellfish that thrive along the Pacific Coast. Enjoy a refreshing blend of natural history, stories about First Nation uses, personal anecdotes, nutrition, sustainable foraging guidelines and recipes. You’ll even get to samples a few items like as Chocolate Ocean Pudding (thickened with Turkish towel seaweed–so rich it rivals truffle ganache) and bullkelp pickles.

Following the lecture Darvill’s Bookstore will have her new book Pacific Feast as well as Pacific Coast foraging guide: 45 wild foods from beach, field and forest available for purchase and signing.

Jennifer is an adjunct professor at Western Washington University and teaches classes on Northwest Wild Food. She was the winner of the Barbara Savage Miles from Nowhere Memorial Award for her book Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage.

The 2010/11Marine Science Lecture Series was created to inspire the general public and to highlight the amazing fish and wildlife of our region. Lectures are free.  Please park in the upper parking lot at Camp Orkila. Shuttle service from the parking lot to the talk is available before and after the lecture.

The lecture Series is presented by program partners The SeaDoc Society and YMCA Camp Orkila. It has been made possible through generous sponsorship by Tom Averna (Deer Harbor Charters), Eclipse Charters, West Sound Marina and co-sponsorship by Barbara Brown, The Kingfish Inn and Shearwater Kayaks.