By nacpark on 2016-03-21
The saisonnalité project attempts to document the seasons of food in this region. It is not only a site about local food, but rather how simple food can be made well with a small amount of extra effort. In fact much of the site will involve food that isn't local to this region specifically, or even in general. I believe that while it is important to use what is around us and readily available, it is also important to try new foods and use what works best.
It is a collection of my observations as I experiment with food, I endeavour to be complete when touching upon a subject, but believe that it is important to learn things by doing them as opposed to just reading about them. They are fundamentally notes about what I've done or would change as opposed to instructions for replicating the process exactly. If something is unclear or seems incomplete, think about what might be missing and try to figure out how to do that for yourself. It is better to think something through and learn something from a mistake than to blindly follow instructions without thinking.
Because this website uses some wild foods, I think it is important to mention that if you grab the wrong wild plant it will at worst cause death, make you or those who eat it ill, therefore unless your plants are identified by an expert in the field, you should not eat them. If you are interesting in wild plants, think about taking a course with a local expert in the area, these are often quite reasonably priced and of varying lengths, it's better to pay a little money and learn something than it is to make yourself sick or dead.
The absence of photographs is intentional. The internet is filled with images of just about anything I talk about here and if you are unsure of a process, there are probably photos, or a video somewhere which will clarify things, I would encourage you to think it through and confirm your hypothesis by trying it, or looking up a graphical guide. I often take pictures of the processes involved, yet to publish them removes a fundamental part of what this project is about--to interact with the world first-hand.
The date on a page indicates the time it first appears, not when it was last updated. Unless the page received an overhaul large enough to radically alter the content, as opposed to updates for clarity, brevity, or slight tweaks to make better food, it will only appear in the archive on the day it was created.