Forage. Gather. Feast.: 100+ Recipes from West Coast Forests, Shores, and Urban Spaces

Celebrate the pleasure of the wilderness (or even your backyard) with this approachable forage-to-kitchen cookbook featuring 110 recipes using foragable foods—from seaweed love to mushroom lust and everything in between.

Identify foragable foods in your own backyard to create simple, rustic recipes from the bounty of the coast, forest, and urban spaces up and down the West Coast.

Featuring more than 100 recipes and chock-full of lush photography, this cookbook shows you what to do with the delicious foodstuffs you can dig, snip, or catch anywhere from Alaska to Northern California, then put it all together in homecooked meals best shared with friends and gorgeous sunset views or cooked in the wild over a campfire.

Recipes include: 

Morels, Asparagus, Fava Beans, and Fiddlehead Ferns with BurrataBlack Truffle Pot de Crème with Preserved Sakura Cherry BlossomsFire-Roasted Butter Clams with Seaweed GremolataSpruce Tip and Juniper Berry Sockeye Salmon GravlaxChilled Huckleberries with Campfire Caramel and Seaweed Salt

Reimagine your cooking and unlock new flavors from the abundance that surrounds us.

About the Author

MARIA FINN is an author and chef living on a houseboat in San Francisco Bay. During the pandemic, she started hosting Flora and Fungi Wild Food Adventures, which is an experiential food event teaching people how to forage along the West Coast from the Sierras to Homer, Alaska.

Author Residence: Sausalito, California

A lifestyle photographer with a quirky, honest aesthetic, MARLA AUFMUTH fully immerses herself and has been telling stories through her lens for 20 years, beginning as a photo editor at Wired magazine. She seeks to capture nature's ebb and flow and the beauty seen in our everyday lives.

Illustrator Residence:San Francisco, California