Feasting Wild- In Search of the Last Untamed Food

May 12, 2021

In this episode of ExtraVirgin Food & Travel Podcast, we discuss the fascinating subject of 'wild' foods.

Our guest, Gina Rae La Cerva is an award-winning writer, author of ”Feasting Wild In Search of the Last Untamed Food,” a geographer, and environmental anthropologist originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Equipped with both insatiable curiosity and absolute fearlessness, she’s researched tsunamis in Indonesia, crossed the Pacific Ocean on a sailboat, and investigated the wild meat trade in the forests of the Congo basin.

We talk with Gina Rae about what 'wild' actually means; foraging in ancient and modern times, rare and unusual foods, hunting, contemporary restaurants and notions of 'local' as well as hearing about some of Gina Rae's extraordinary adventures as she traversed the globe in search of the world's last untamed foods.