Forage & Feast: Recipes for Bringing Mushrooms & Wild Plants to Your Table: A Cookbook

Explore the bounty of the natural world through delicious vegan dishes featuring foraged ingredients

In Forage & Feast, experienced forager and chef Chrissy Tracey takes you on a journey through the four seasons to discover and collect plants and fungi. Each of the four sections—Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer—focuses on seasonally available foraged ingredients and features detailed guides to identifying them as well as photographs of their natural habitat. No matter where you live, you'll be able to find recipe inspiration and universally useful foraging advice. From urban magnolia blooms and easy-to-find dandelions to forest floor King Bolete mushrooms and sweet pawpaws, she shows you how to transform these wild ingredients into fresh and inviting vegan recipes. Discover mouthwatering dishes like:

Morel Fried Chicken Bites with Dandelion Hot Honey (Spring)Pulled Jackfruit Sliders with Blackberry Barbecue Sauce (Summer)Crabapple Crisp (Fall)Shagbark Hickory Ice Cream (Winter)

Interwoven with stories from Chrissy's own foraging and culinary experiences and accompanied by lush photography, Forage & Feast is the perfect introduction to finding food in the natural world and turning it into something both beautiful and tasty.

About the Author

Chrissy Tracey is a first-generation Jamaican American vegan chef, artist, forager, YouTuber, and entrepreneur in the food and wellness space. She is the first vegan chef to be featured on Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen YouTube series and has been featured in the magazine. Her recipes and work have been featured in Epicurious, Farm Sanctuary Magazine, Veg News, and the Vegan Review. She has also been showcased on the Bon Appétit Food People podcast and NPR's Seasoned. Tracey was listed in Connecticut Magazine's 40 Under 40 and made a name for herself while working as a vegan pizza chef in New Haven, a city known all over the world for its pizza. She currently runs a Connecticut-based catering company that specializes in curating unique plant-based culinary events.

Author Residence: New Fairfield, CT

Author Hometown: Cheshire, CT