A professional forager shares her secrets [SLIDESHOW]

Take a visual foraging tour with the author of the cookbook "Foraged Flavor."

A tour participant takes a deep whiff of dainty dames rocket, an edible flower that knocks any boring green salad up a notch with splashy colors resembling a Mardi Gras parade.

Tama Matsuoka Wong doesn’t just frolic in her New Jersey forest, she eats it. A group of New Yorkers recently visited this delicious patch of land to learn about how a weed becomes a delicacy and to celebrate Wong’s new book Foraged Flavor. Read the whole story here.

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