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Chiaramonte 1 Foraging: The Life of Wild Food Hunters Produced by Tiara Chiaramonte University of Southern California Chiaramonte 2 Table of Contents Foraging Music Intro ..................................................................................................Page 3 Meet Mia and Pascal...................................................................................................Page 4 Introduction Pascal………….................................................................................Pages 5-6 Introduction Mia ....................................................................................................Pages 7-8 Introduction Jim..............................................................................................….Pages 9-10 Final thoughts Mia and Pascal..................................................................................Page 10 Final thoughts Jim and Jan……………………………………………...............Page 10-11 Works Cited…………………………………………………………………..……Page 12 Chiaramonte 3 Tiara Chiaramonte Documentary Script: “Foraging” Thesis 2013 CARD: Foraging: The act of looking for wild food in nature. MUSIC: “5 Years Time” - Noah and the Whale - Karaoke Version MONTAGE BEAUTY SHOTS OF: Wild buckwheat Wild dried plants Dried berries Acorns MUSIC MUSIC FADE DOWN MS – Pascal holding flower and then eats it SOT - Pascal Baudar These are the scarlet monkey flowers which are also edible. MONTAGE BEAUTY SHOTS OF: Acorn in hand Acorn being smashed Smashed Acorn in hand MUSIC FADE UP MUSIC FADE DOWN Jim holding acorns with students SOT - Jim Robertson And when you get into eating wild foods you find you don’t need to eat as much because they have so much more vitality. MONTAGE BEAUTY SHOTS OF: Hands treating wild nettles Wild nettles boiling Wild nettles strained Vegetables stirred in pot MUSIC UP MUSIC FADE DOWN Mia cooking in nature SOT - Mia Wasilevich The number of hours it took to forage this meal was probably 8 to 10 hours. MONTAGE OF BEAUTY SHOTS: MUSIC UP Chiaramonte 4 Wild wines Wild dried berries CARD: Mia and Pascal teach classes in the Los Angeles area on how to find and cook wild MUSIC FADE DOWN: MS – Mia shaping wild food mixture NAT: I make a little ball in my forefinger and there we go. Easy peasy. CU – Wild food mix in Mia’s hand MS – Behind of Mia moving wild food mixture to new plate on the other side of the stove CU - New plate NAT – Mia For me foraging on the chef’s side is an introduction to a completely new set of ingredients. That’s what it is to me. It’s like the best farmers market ever. MS – Mia and Pascal sitting at home MS – Mia moving wild food patties into pan CU – Mia moving into pan SOT - Pascal And to me it’s basically being able to source very organic ingredients that have a tremendous amount of flavors. MS – Mia and Pascal sitting at home WS – Mia turning patties CU – Mia turning patties MS – Mia and Pascal sitting at home MS –Mia finishing cooking patties moving to new plate SOT – Mia The best parts of foraging is that it forces you to look at what is food? For some people it’s a weed. For some people it’s ornamental plant and it really forces you to be like wow what is food really. CU – patties being moved to new plate NAT – Sizzling Mia - You know what they say never turn your back on butter. CARD Pascal shows how to identify and find the food. NAT Sizzling sounds fade down Sounds of forest hike fade up WS - Pascal on nature hike followed by NAT - Pascal Chiaramonte 5 students "Okay so here is some fresh mugwart. " MS – Pascal sitting at home WS – Pascal going off trail to get mugwart MS – Pascal picking mugwart MS – Pascal sitting at home SOT - Pascal When I grew up in Belgium my grandmother used to forage used to tell me to go get some stinging nettle to get some soup. So I learned a little bit about foraging. I grew up in a big town of a thousand people in Belgium. So there was nothing to do so I spent all my time in the wilderness. So I started munching on plants and I guess I never stopped MS – Pascal holding mugwart and passing it to students CU - Mugwart NAT – Pascal Mugwart -- That's what you use. It's a remedy for poison oak. But one of the main uses I have for it is actually beer. It's an aromatic plant. MS – Jan Timbrook sitting in her office CG: Jan Timbrook Ethnobotanist Picture: Indians picking wild rice Picture: Indians picking wild plants SOT – Jan Timbrook People eating wild foods goes back to well before there were homosapiens. That goes way back to the early ancestors. Our primate ancestors always relied on wild food so we have a nice little history of that. CU – Pascal holding mugwart NAT - Pascal So it’s a nice little aromatic plant it is edible but extremely bitter. I made some Korean soup with it. It was absolutely disgusting MS – Pascal sitting at home PAN– Student drawing plants in notebook to her face SOT – Pascal I wanted to be a little more self-reliant. I wanted to learn more about the local plants. So I started going to classes with different people. I started to learn some of the plants I didn't know. Chiaramonte 6 MS – Pascal sitting at home I ended up doing 250 classes with different people. MS – Pascal holding fresh mugwart then picking dried mugwart MS – Pascal rubbing dried mugwart into wick NAT – Pascal You can also use the native used to use the dry leaf. And if you take the dry leaf and you go like this. You actually have the original wicks the romans were using in their oil lamp. If I had a lighter I could light it and it would just keep burning and burning and burning. MS – Jan sitting in office SOT – Jan In terms of how people figured out what was edible. Partly its trial and error. Partly its observing what animals are eating and trying that. MS – Pascal looking for lighter SOT – Pascal Anybody has a lighter we can try it MS – Pascal with matches lighting mugwart MS – Pascal sitting at home NAT – Pascal You’re in the middle of nature and you get to source your ingredients. It really is the purest form. It really is a passion for me. I feel like I’m myself. MS - Pacal holding burnt mugwart wick NAT – Pascal And now it starts smoking it’ll keep going and going MS – Pascal sitting at home WS – Pascal putting out mugwart leaf MS – Pascal walking away SOT – Pascal When I’m in the wild and I can pick up grace herbs aromatic plants. You’re next neighbor is a dear you can hear birds. You’re in the middle of nowhere hear you are just grabbing ingredients that you can use to create incredible dishes. Chiaramonte 7 CARD: Mia cooks the food Sounds of hiking fading out WS - Mia and Pascal sitting at a table in nature with students NAT: Mia and Pascal Pascal: We are going to follow that road. We're going to be walking for 10 minutes without looking at any plant. Although I always say that and I can't find stuff to talk about. Mia: Yeah he won't stop Pascal: And we'll walk for about an hour. Mia: Yeah an hour. Just call me. Pascal: Oh I need my phone then. WS – Pascal leaving to get his phone MS – Mia sitting at home around cooking devices CU – Liter of water being set down on a picnic table SOT – Mia We unpack and we greet everybody who comes. They don't see any of the set up they just see some picnic tables and coolers and I'm sure they're thinking oh great park picnic. PAN: From water to students WS – Students walk off to go hiking NAT: Pascal Ready? Bug lotion water? You're good. Good. Let's go meet the food. WS – Mia set up on picnic bench in the forest with a makeshift kitchen MS – Mia sitting at home around cooking devices MS – Mia cutting meat CU – Mia cutting meat CU Mia burning meat MS – Mia sitting at home around cooking SOT Mia And then they leave with Pascal. And I need him to be gone for an hour. So he takes them on a really informative foraging hike. And they get so caught up in it. I'm always behind time. I'm fighting the clock. I don't have stoves or ovens Chiaramonte 8 devices By the time people get there you know. I have no idea what happened. It's a blur. They get back and it's set up and ready for them to taste. And usually people will say how long will this thing be. By the end we're kicking them out of the park. MS – Mia holding venison jerky then walking to serve it NAT- Mia We’ll see if people will like venison jerky. MS – Walking to serve jerky MS – Mia sitting at home around cooking devices WS – Serving the wild venison to students SOT – Mia I think that people do want to know about the self-reliant quality of foraging. They like that aspect of it. But you know people eat with their eyes and they meet around the table. It’s an easier foray to introduce people to foraging when it's a social gourmet experience that they walk away and really enjoy MS – students passing wild venison MS – Jan sitting in office MS – Student eating venison SOT – Jan You have to be really careful they’ve identified the plant they’ve harvested correctly. Because some plants are actually poisonous and easily confused with one another or you might have an allergic reaction you can just be sensitive to it. But on the other hand I take a Darwinian view on that and people will be eliminated if they behave too foolishly in that regard. MS – Student eating venison NAT Mmm is that sage butter? MS – Mia and Pascal sitting at home WS – Mia talking to students SOT – Mia It’s really the whole cycle. I saw it grow. I picked it. I processed it. I cooked it. So you’re hands on involved in the entire process of food. NAT Chiaramonte 9 WS – Students walking away and leaving Bye Jen. Bye Owen. CARD Jim also teaches classes on foraging but his focus is on survival skills and reconnecting with nature. FADE IN – Sounds of Jim’s voice WS – Jim sitting with students NAT – Jim Make a nice circle so everybody can fit in. MS – Jim sitting in his house WS – Jim clearing foliage with students SOT – Jim The skills like the harvesting skills, harvesting with consciousness integrity, and all the other aboriginal skills that I teach. I consider them all pathways to a deeper relationship with our natural environment. MS – Jim clearing foliage with students NAT – Jim The first thing I’m doing here is clearing a nice base without any flammable debris here. MS – Jim sitting in his house WS – Jim with students SOT - Jim The plants are actually here for us. They give us everything we need to live a good life. They give us our food they give us our medicine they give us all of the utilitarian uses that we would need plants for. MS – Jim holding fire drill and fire board NAT – Jim I like the way the native people relate to this. This is man. The fire drill is the man. The fireboard is the woman and then the little baby is born. The ember. MS – Jan sitting in office MS – Jim putting rope on fire drill. CU – Jim’s hands moving the fire drill SOT – Jan The wild plants have more chemicals that act as defense against predators. Those have been bred out of commercial plants for the most part. That cause bitter flavor or texture people don’t like so the domesticated plants tend to not have those things while the wild plants have more of them in them and that tends to have more Chiaramonte 10 mineral and nutrient vitamin content in them probably. CU – Jim’s hands moving the fire drill NAT – Jim Just start out nice and slow. Just get your rhythm going PAN: Jim’s hands on fire drill to bottom of smoking fire drill FADE TO BLACK SOT – Jim When I’m helping people to assist people get out and assist with the natural environment. Like what’s good for medicine what’s good for food… We’re actually really teaching people to become good stewards of the land. NAT- Fire Drill Sound Fading Out CU – Mia moving finished foraged patties to plate CU – Plate of foraged patties in sauce MS - Mia and Pascal sitting at home MS – Mia adding crème fraîche to foraged patties CU - Crème fraîche added to patties SOT – Mia The one thing about it is I hope people experience it as fun. It’s fun to forage and find stuff. If you were ever a little kid and picked berries it’s kind of like that but on steroids. It’s fun. MS - Mia and Pascal sitting at home WS – Mia plating with eye droplet CU – Mia adding sauce with eye droplet MS - Mia and Pascal sitting at home CU – Mia adjusting flowers on plate SOT – Pascal And also there’s something unique. The connection to the food. Being over there in the wild and then you’re food is right there. You find it. You source it. It’s like spiritual. It’s between you and the plant. It’s life you realize the plants are alive, they’re not on the shelf. They’re growing right there. There’s a communication right there Fade to black WS - Jim finishing fire NAT – Jim I have an ember already but I want to make a bigger ember. WS – Fire drill starting to smoke MS – Jan sitting in office SOT – Jan Chiaramonte 11 CU – Fire ember being removed from drill MS – Jan sitting in office CU – fire ember being moved to tinder WS – People watching MS – Jim blowing on tinder People need to be very careful about what they harvest in what locations because the native environment has really been severely disrupted in California. The native flora have been really persecuted by pavement, introduced animals, too many people and I think it’s selfish for people to think we’re more entitled to these things then the wild animals. MS – Jim blowing on tinder NAT – Jim So you want to blow very gently in the beginning so it catches on fire PAN - Jim blowing on tinder to students CU – Jim blowing on tinder smoke everywhere MS – Jim setting down burning tinder WS – Students watching CU – Pan lighting mugwart with burning tinder MS – Jim sitting in house WS – Jim passing burnt mugwart on seashell SOT – Jim Humans often suffer from an incredible optical delusion of consciousness. Where they actually think they are separate from everything else so when a person really realizes they are connected. You are a part of me the plants are a part of me. I’m not going to want to do harm to you or to anything for that matter. And this is what we teach when we’re out there. And we don’t’ teach it by words we teach it by our actions. How we do things out there. SOT – Jim That’s one of the main things I do out there is I want to teach people to reconnect with our natural environment. So they’ll respect it, they’ll take care of it, they’ll be good stewards of the land. So we’re not going to lose it like crazy like we’ve been losing it leaps and bounds these days. Chiaramonte 12 Works Cited "Foraging Instructors." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2010. Web. 10 Sept. 2012. <http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/29/food/la-fo-foragerbox-20100729>. Blackmore, Willy. "Top 10 Ways to Forage in Los Angeles." LA Weekly. LA Weekly, 10 May 2010. Web. 08 Sept. 2012. <http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2010/05/foraging_in_los_angeles.php>. "Japan: Cook It Raw." Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. Travel Channel. TRVL, Chevy Chase, Maryland, 7 May 2012. Television. Duncan, Carol. "Fine Foraging." - ABC Newcastle NSW. ABC, 10 Sept. 2012. Web. 10 Sept. 2012. <http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2012/09/07/3585360.htm>. Foderaro, Lisa W. "Enjoy Park Greenery, City Says, but Not as Salad." The New York Times. The New York Times, 29 July 2011. Web. 8 Sept. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/nyregion/new-york-moves-to-stop-foraging-in- citys-parks.html?pagewanted=all>. Greer, Susan. "Foraging for Delicacies Becoming More Popular among Chefs, Foodies." Fort Frances Times Online. Fort Frances Times, 10 Sept. 2012. Web. 10 Sept. 2012. <http://fftimes.com/node/254429>. Kaufman, Rachel. "Urban Foragers Cropping Up in U.S." National Geographic Society. National Geographic, 3 Sept. 2010. Web. 10 Sept. 2012. <http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/thegreenguide/2010/09/urban-foragers- cropping-up-in.html>. Pirolli, Peter, and Stuart K. Card. "Information Foraging." Http://act- r.psy.cmu.edu/papers/280/uir-1999-05-pirolli.pdf. UIR Technical Report, Jan. 1999. Web. 8 Sept. 2012. <Funded in part by the Office of Naval Research>. Shute, Nancy. "Foraging The Weeds For Wild, Healthy Greens." NPR. NPR, 18 Apr. 2011. Web. 08 Sept. 2012. <http://www.npr.org/2011/04/18/135412640/foraging-the- weeds-for-wild-healthy-greens>.
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A look into the lives of three of Los Angeles' foragers. These foragers are on the hunt for wild food from Pasadena to Santa Monica. While some see wild food as a new way to pioneer the culinary field, others see it as a way to live in harmony with nature.
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Chiaramonte, Tiara
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Foraging: the life of wild food hunters
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Annenberg School for Communication
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08/12/2013
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