PRK On The Air: The Wild Greens Of Spring

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A sure sign we’ve hit SPRING! in New England– those fabulous spring leeks, AKA ramps, start popping up in wooded areas (hopefully not too far from home).   Here & Now resident chef Kathy Gunst searches for a few wild greens in New Hampshire and takes us along.  Click HERE for the audio and some gorgeous recipes and photos.

Also, check out Kathy’s essay on spring greens: Wild Things: I think I Love You

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Associate Producer, Here & Now Most recently, Jessica worked as an associate producer at WBUR's daily local program, Radio Boston. Jessica moved to Boston in 2008 and has lived many places since leaving her native Texas. After graduating from college, Jessica worked as a federal employee, documentary film festival producer, oral historian, university teaching assistant, traveling saleswoman and klezmer musician. Her work and projects have appeared in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Bust, Barnard Magazine, National Public Radio, Public Radio International (PRI), and the BBC. Jessica's freelance radio work has received various awards including accolades from the Religion Newswriters Association and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. As a Fulbright Scholar in El Salvador, Jessica collected and studied oral histories from the Jewish Community based in San Salvador. Jessica received her B.A. in political science from Columbia University’s Barnard College and her M.A. in history from Indiana University. She learned how to make radio from the phenomenal folks at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Jessica lives in Somerville with her husband, twin son and daughter, and two cats. To learn more about Jessica’s projects, both current and past, please visit www.jessicaalpert.com.

2 thoughts on “PRK On The Air: The Wild Greens Of Spring”

  1. Mary

    Trivia: It was ramps, aka rampion, aka rapunzel(German), that Rapunzel of Grimm’s fairy tale fame craved insatiably.
    “One day the woman[Rapunzel} was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion – rapunzel, and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, and had the greatest desire to eat some. This desire increased every day, and as she knew that she could not get any of it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable. Then her husband was alarmed, and asked, what ails you, dear wife. Ah, she replied, if I can’t eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die.”