John N. Kallas, PhD:
Dr.
John N. Kallas, PhD:
Presentation:
“Wild Gourmet Garden Vegetables”
Tired
of pulling garden weeds? -- Get revenge -- eat them! Wild gourmet garden vegetables are
those edible weeds that grow in nearly everybody's vegetable garden. You turn over the
soil and weeds grow - it's a natural process. Most people pull and throw them wastefully
into the compost. Instead, with no more work, harvest them and bring them into the
kitchen. These are not ugly tasting foods - these are delicate, flavorful, foods that
people can eat fresh. In this slide presentation, learn which raw wild vegetables are easy
to identify, fun to gather, nutritious, and delicious to eat. Examples we might cover
include wild spinach, wild mustard, sheep sorrel, oxalis, purslane, amaranth, chickweed,
and more. The salads you can make are only limited by your imagination.
Presenter information:
John
has a Doctorate in nutrition, a Masters in education, and degrees in biology, psychology,
and zoology. He's a trained botanist, nature photographer, writer, researcher, and
teacher. John has researched edible wild
plants since 1970 and taught in colleges, universities, and to the general public since
1978. He started Wild Food Adventures in 1993, the Wild Food Adventurer newsletter in
1996, and published the Wild Food Primer in 1999.
Biography
John has a Doctorate in nutrition, a Masters in
education, and degrees in biology and zoology. He's a trained botanist, nature
photographer, writer, researcher, and teacher. Dr. Kallas has researched edible wild
plants since 1970 and taught in colleges, universities, and to the general public since
1978. He has taught and trained hundreds of people in wild foods from all over North
America, given hundreds of wild food presentations to a variety of groups, amassed one of
the largest personal wild food libraries in the country, and continues to build on his
wild food/nature slide collection. Dr. Kallas
started Wild Food Adventures in 1993 and the Wild Food Adventurer newsletter in April of
1996.
He is both its publisher and editor.
John
was born in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. In 1970 an interest in wilderness survival began
his quest to know wild foods. Fed initially by Bradford Angier's 1956 book How to Survive
in the Woods and shortly thereafter by Allen Hall's 1973 book, The Wild Food Trail Guide,
John seriously began studying and gathering edible wild plants. In 1974, he took his first
30 hours of study in wilderness survival, an introductory nutrition class and an independent study in edible wild plants. These academic pursuits were
all in preparation for a 6-month vagabonding trip through Europe. By the end of that
adventure, John was getting all of his vegetables from wild plants. Following that
learning experience and encouragement from Michigan State University administrators and
professors, John began teaching senior-level university classes in edible wild plants. He
taught at MSU for 7 years.
While teaching and working on his Masters and
Ph.D. degrees, John studied botany under Dr. John Beaman, Curator of the MSU herbarium. He
also took conventional botany and taxonomy courses. Over the years, many wild food
research expeditions were conducted, including ones to Washington D.C., North Carolina,
West Virginia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Oregon,
Washington State, California, British Columbia, and Alberta. The reason John pursued a
Ph.D. in nutrition was to learn about nutrients, human physiology and biochemistry,
cultural foodways, anthropology, food preparation, and nutritional toxicology in the
context of wild foods -- to advance the field of wild foods.
John
moved to Oregon in 1989 where he continues his research and teaching. Since moving to
Portland, he has taught wild food classes at Portland State University, Clackamas
Community College, and Wild Food Adventures. As of January 1994, Dr. Kallas has been
running Wild Food Adventures as full time occupation.
John Kallas
Wild Food Adventures
(503) 775-3828
wildfood@teleport.com
http://www.teleport.com/~wildfood
5036 SE Mitchell St, Portland, OR 97206-4814
