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COF note: Always seek and receive permission to gather acorns<br />
from agencies and/or private property owners.<br />
I don’t know why more people don’t eat acorns.<br />
Perhaps myths about them exist, and they’ve never<br />
been dispelled. I absolutely love them.<br />
Through the process of writing this book, I cooked a<br />
lot of acorns. Friends and family loved the recipes.<br />
The majority of “first-time-tasters” were surprised at<br />
how delicious they are.<br />
Unfortunately, in California the Oaks are falling to the<br />
hands of developers and agriculture. It is a great loss.<br />
Besides producing tons of food, there’s always the<br />
charming silhouette of your favorite oak against the<br />
horizon. Acorns are everywhere! In the parks, on<br />
school grounds, along the roads, maybe right outside<br />
your door.<br />
I use Tan Oak acorns a lot because there is such<br />
abundance where I live. Sometimes, if you don’t<br />
gather your acorns right away, the wildlife will gather<br />
them for you! If you have access to more than one<br />
variety, watch their cycles. When you see a “good”<br />
acorn, you’ll often see it ready to bust out of its shell.<br />
While hiking, I see acorns in different microecosystems.<br />
In the Fall you may pass healthy acorns<br />
on a southern slope, in the Spring, you may see tastylooking<br />
acorns nestled in the leaves of a northern<br />
slope, kept moist without a lot of sun.
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