Tag: rationing

  • Wild Food Spring #2: “They Can’t Ration These”

    Wild Food Spring #2: “They Can’t Ration These”

    In this series, Dylan Gordon considers cookbooks, memoirs and fictions about wild, foraged foods. Reviewed in this essay: They Can’t Ration These by Vicomte de Mauduit, Persephone Books, 2004 [1940]. Foods foraged from the wild are this year’s hot culinary trend, and all that limelight makes it easy to forget one fact: in much of history,…