{"id":21094,"date":"2022-03-23T16:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21094"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:04:02","slug":"ramping-up-for-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/ramping-up-for-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramping Up\u00a0for Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23dbdbdb&amp;d=apr22_portland_magazine&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=40&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>Discover yourself while foraging for ramps, fiddleheads, and mushrooms<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>By Diane Hudson<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIngredients are all around us all the time, because of where we live,\u201d says <strong>Anna Brown<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, co-owner with chef (and husband) <\/span><strong>Bowman Brown<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><strong>Elda<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Biddeford. \u201cWe gather them ourselves to represent the current season and showcase Maine\u2019s best wild flavors in our nightly tasting menu.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur landscape is bursting with edible and highly nutritious wild ingredients,\u201d says chef<\/span> <strong>T. Love Smith<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><strong>Gaia\u2019s Plant-Based Kitchen<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Brunswick. \u201cWild mushrooms, ramps, seaweed, fiddleheads, dandelion greens, day lilies, berries, pine needles, cucumber root, sassafras root, rose petals, wild carrot taproots, nettles, edible flowers, and tons of herbs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21096\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ramping-up-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"ramping-up\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ramping-up-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ramping-up-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ramping-up-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ramping-up-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ramping-up-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ramping-up.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover yourself while foraging for ramps, fiddleheads, and mushrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,315],"tags":[1201],"class_list":["post-21094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-hungry-eye","tag-april-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21099,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094\/revisions\/21099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}