Meet your Host:

Robert "Bobcat" Saunders

This website is brought to you by me, Bobcat Saunders, to help teach about the uses of wild edible plants and mushrooms. I got started because I spend a lot of time in the woods, and I like to cook. So one day I asked myself "How can I put these together?" So I started cooking wild food. After awhile, I thought "Maybe somebody else would like to learn about this." So I offered a class, and we have been having fun since.

I offer programs to Nature centers and organizations near me in the Northeast US. Mostly they consist of a talk, a walk, and a cooking demonstration with samples for all. I'm flexible, and I'm certainly not in it for the money (but some groupies would be nice).
Your organization can contact me at:
Bobcat

I'm living, foraging, cooking, healing and teaching in NE NJ USA,
near the Hudson River, along the magnificent Palisades.

If you want to hear what others have to say,
here are some testimonials.

Before you get carried away, here is some background about me:

Personal Stuff:
Favorite Wild Tea: Sweetfern and Spicebush
Favorite Wild Vegetable: Lambs Quarters
Favorite Mushroom: Morel
Favorite Movie: Goldfinger
Some good books read recently: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond;Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.
Favorite music: Greek folk music and Rembetika, and Bach on classical guitar.

Robert "Bobcat" Saunders has been cooking and eating wild foods for 4+ decades, and lives to keep finding new and better ways to cook them. He has researched cooking from/in many countries, both formally and from regular everyday cooks. He has also studied with Tom Brown Jr.(the Tracker), Karen Sherwood, "Wildman" Steve Brill, David Winston, Peeka Trenkle, Robin Rose Bennett, Barrie Kavasch, and is active in the New Jersey Mycological Association.

Since 1994 he has taught "Going Wilder in the Kitchen" classes, about cooking and healing with wild plants and mushrooms, for Nature centers and organizations and organizations in the NY-NJ-PA area. He also has been member, Trustee, Treasurer, and/or computer consultant to a number of NJ Nature centers for several years.

Robert Saunders, M.B.A. is Dean of Registration and Records at Mandl, the College of Allied Health. Before that, he was a Systems Analyst at Columbia (Univ.) Business School, before which he spent 17 years as a computer consultant specializing in computers, accounting and databases. He has taught computers and management at colleges and commercial training centers. He has published articles in technical magazines, and taught seminars, in the U.S. and England. Before that he was an accountant, manager, and controller for 15 years. Busy guy.