FINDERS KEEPERS
PHOTOGRAPHS: LORNA PARKES, SACHA SPECKER. ILLUSTRATIONS: ISTOCK
Foraging guru Vaughn Perret at his wilderness lodge in Canada
The attraction of foraging is clear – it sits somewhere between pottering about in the garden, detective sleuthing and channelling a primitive hunter-gatherer instinct. Across the globe, restaurateurs and travel companies are finding tourists want to experience local cuisine in a more tactile way: hand-cutting noodles in Tokyo with a master, picking herbs with a top chef or scouring the seas for oysters with local fishermen.