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In the lecture I will present snapshots of my trip to document the tradition of wild cuisine in various countries of the world. I will start with the story of how I started my adventure with wild cuisine, how I came to my knowledge. Then I will go to what is hidden in the Polish ethnographic archives, and I will end up with stories of wandering through 30 islands in Croatia and mountain villages in Asia.
I will talk about the tradition of eating wild vegetables in Poland, the ethnobotanical survey of Józef Rostafiński in 1883, the Polish Ethnographic Atlas, the forgotten manna, purgatory and caltrop. I will also tell you about the rich traditions of eating wild vegetables in Croatia and Georgia. Finally, it will also be about what the inhabitants of Chinese and Tibetan villages eat and how they prepare supplies from wild plants for the winter. If I have enough time, I will come to the Laos Fair, full of unknown mushrooms, bats and rats.
lecture in Polish
Dr hab. Łukasz Łuczaj is a professor at the University of Rzeszów. He is an ethnobotanist who keeps records of traditional knowledge about the use of edible plants in many European and East Asian countries, including Croatia, China and Laos. He is also a prepper and a survivor. He lives in the Dynów Foothills, where he runs wild cuisine workshops. Author of best-selling books, incl. Wild Kitchen and the Worm-eater’s Manual. It also collects seeds for setting up flower meadows. He also hosted the television program Dziki Obiad by Łukasz Łuczaj on Kuchnia Plus.
www.lukaszluczaj.pl
www.thewildfood.org
Check the program of the 4th edition of the Festiwal Wibracje.
