A flavorful field guide to foraging | Alexis Nikole Nelson
TED Talks Daily
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4.1 • 12.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Whether it’s dandelions blooming in your backyard or purslane sprouting from the sidewalk, vegan forager Alexis Nikole Nelson is on a mission to show how freely growing flora could make its way to your plate. With contagious enthusiasm and a live cooking demo, she explains the benefits of expanding your palate to include “wild” foods that are delicious, nutritious and planet-friendly -- and gives three tips for helping others go from skeptical to confident in their own food adventures.
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| 0:35.7 | Hey, y'all, I'm Elise Hugh. |
| 0:37.1 | You're listening to TED Talks Daily. Those of you on TikTok might be familiar with today's speaker. She's the foraging enthusiast Alexis Nicole Nelson. She shares her lifelong passion for finding delicious foods in nature, all while preparing sweet and salty kelp chips live on stage at TED 2020. |
| 0:56.1 | And stick around after the talk |
| 0:57.6 | for a conversation between Alexis and yours truly. |
| 1:03.6 | If a vegan falls in the forest |
| 1:06.7 | and no one's there to hear them say, |
| 1:12.9 | I'm vegan! |
| 1:17.7 | Are they even really vegan? |
| 1:24.6 | I like to preface conversations about my dietary habits with jokes, because brains love the ha-haz, |
| 1:39.3 | and because sometimes you say the word vegan, and people get a little afraid. |
| 1:48.0 | Their mind immediately conjures this non-existent super vegan, who's an amalgam of every annoying thing they've ever heard of vegan say. |
| 2:01.3 | And at that point, they're checked out. |
| 2:05.6 | Now, if you've managed to somehow avoid the zeitgeist |
| 2:09.3 | for the last 15 or 20 years, one, tell me how. |
| 2:19.2 | Two, I will tell you what vegan means, because I'm sure you're dying to know. |
| 2:24.5 | So vegan is both a diet completely free of animal products and a person who follows that |
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