ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A new episode of the PBS show “Wild Foods” was filmed in upstate New York. The show, hosted by environmentalist, educator and forager Kevin Chap, focuses on food found in nature and redefining our relationship with natural foods.
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In this sixth episode of “Wild Foods,” Chap explores the Haudenosaunee Nation’s history in the Adirondacks and how they were able to sustain themselves by living off the land. The episode also features New York State Historian Devin Lander, Cloudsplitter Outfitters owner Dave Olbert, and Chap foraging for ingredients and using them to make a venison schnitzel.
Chap also visits the Capital Region, where he meets Chef Elliott Vogel, who, at the time, was working at The Delaware in Albany. Vogel is now the Executive Chef at Panza’s Restaurant in Saratoga Springs.
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Vogel makes a mosaic-style venison loin in a carpaccio with local Harvest Moon cheese, apple chips and nasturtiums from his wife’s mother’s garden. Vogel and Chap went on to talk about how nasturtiums are edible flowers.
Vogel is also a licensed forager, who went out to the forest with Chap and found chicken of the woods, an edible mushroom. Vogel then made a Gochujang, sesame-glazed, crispy chicken of the woods with baba ganoush.
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“Ignoring nature is one of the worst things you could do,” said Vogel in the episode. “As a chef, it’s the worst thing. Turn your back on nature, you turn the back on the only thing that’s actually giving you life.”…