Kalpasi, also known as black stone flower, is essentially dried lichen. Kalpasi in one of the key ingredients in Chettinad cuisine. It's not just in India, lichens are used across the world. I was at ...

When I moved to the Ozarks for graduate school in 1989, the place terrified me. First there was the Pig Trail, which is what the locals call the stretch of highway between Alma and Fayetteville, ...

Raw foraged moss is the unlikely new and fashionable food to feature on the menus of some of Britain's top chefs. The humble plant, which is most often spotted growing on rocks in damp areas, has had ...

A mossy fungus could be used to make nutritional food products after an apocalypse, or on Mars, according to research by designer Julia Schwarz. In her project Unseen Edible, Schwarz – a recent ...

The first day of spring has come and gone, but, while hiking with friends in the mountains in Maine this past weekend we encountered enough snow and ice to realize spring doesn’t always arrive on its ...

The first day of spring has come and gone, but, while hiking with friends in the mountains in Maine this past weekend we encountered enough snow and ice to realize spring doesn’t always arrive on its ...