Eating the Mountains: Sansai and Japan’s Art of Making Wild Vegetables Edible
Eating the Mountains: Sansai and Japan's Art of Making Wild Vegetables Edible Every spring, Japan gathers a fern that is mildly carcinogenic raw, soaks it in wood ash, and serves it as a delicacy. That sentence contains most of what is interesting about sansai — the wild mountain vegetables that are the last part of...
