San Antonio Book Festival - Gabrielle Cerberville
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Gabrielle Cerberville

Gabrielle Cerberville (a.k.a. Chaotic Forager, the internet’s “Mushroom Auntie”) is a nationally recognized foraging educator, community mycologist, and climate advocate based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Her fast-paced, high-energy educational content has earned her an audience of nearly two million followers, and she regularly appears at festivals, universities, and community events across the country to lead keynotes, workshops, and immersive foraging experiences.

Gabrielle is currently completing her PhD in Music Composition and Computer Technologies at the University of Virginia, where her work bridges art, ecology, and science to investigate how humans can better understand, protect, and communicate with the living world around us.

Gabrielle is joining the Book Festival to discuss Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life.

More About Gabrielle Cerberville

  • Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life

    Foraging is becoming increasingly popular, from TikTok to tasting menus at the most exclusive restaurants around the world. People are discovering that delicious wild edibles are waiting for us in our own backyards, led by champions such as Gabrielle Cerberville. Known as “The Chaotic Forager” online, Cerberville argues that foraging is the past, present, and future of food, and the key to unlocking a reciprocal relationship with the land that feeds us. Through learning to engage with the world of wild food, she contends, we can also build a kinder, more respectful relationship with ourselves.

    "Gathered" is an adventure in foraging that awakens us to the beauty of the seasons and the world we live in, heightening our senses to the crunch of snow underfoot and the sharp prick of a thorny bramble. Season by season, Cerberville takes us along through winning harvests and missteps, introducing us to the beautiful complications of foraged edibles and the various ways to eat and prepare them in delicious recipes such as Chanterelle Peach Pie with Basil, Wild Blueberry Ginger Gimlets, and Pulled Hen of the Woods with Juneberry BBQ Sauce. Cerberville also chronicles indigenous practices of honoring the earth, and their own long road to self-discovery and acceptance.

    With this book as a guide, readers will learn to find, identify, harvest, and process wild food to use in their own kitchens and develop a greater kinship with the natural world. A memoir with recipes, color photos, and illustrations throughout, "Gathered" is an invitation to move beyond our comfort zones, open our eyes, and dig into the earth.

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