When people say "
fiddlehead fern" they are most often talking about the ostrich fern.
The
fiddlehead fern salad is a favorite, along with the kinulob na manok, chicken simmered in a banana leaf-covered clay pot, enhanced with Spanish chorizo, potato and onion; pinangat na tilapia, fish stewed in coconut milk; and shrimp kare-kare.
Antigonish Review,
Fiddlehead and Contemporary Verse 2.
If you have ever wondered how to prepare
fiddlehead ferns, snapping turtles, acorns, squirrels, muskrat, beaver, porcupine, raccoon or opossum for the table, Wild Food Cookbook, by Frances Hamerstrom, is the book for you.
Pako or
fiddlehead of fern that now grows in farms, rather than foraged on the sides of mountains, is also a favored ingredient.
DalhousieReview, the Times Literary Supplement, the
Fiddlehead, the
Antigonish Review, CV2 and The
Fiddlehead. Her play, After Akhmatova,
Perhaps the closest thing to the experience is at the weekend market where some sellers say the pako (
fiddlehead fern) grew in pots at their home, the hito (catfish) is from their pond, or the brown rice was harvested from their mountain farm.
The Malahat Review, The
Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, and Prairie
Start off with watercress,
fiddlehead fern, cherry tomatoes and edible flowers salad, and follow it up with a rich butternut pumpkin soup.
including CV2, Descant, The
Fiddlehead, Literary Review of Canada, Room,
MICHAEL JOHNSON's work has appeared in The
Fiddlehead, Weber Studies, The Pedestal Magazine, and The Best American Poetry and The Best Canadian Poetry anthologies for 2009.
He has published with Prism International,
Fiddleheadappeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Fire, the
Fiddlehead, the Malahat
