Fogo 10: Berries
20 February 2010
Berries are a big deal around here. A. Big. Deal. They even hold a festival about them. On the island alone you got partridge berries, bakeapples, marshberries, crowberries, gooseberries, cracker berries, dog berries, squashberries, red currants, black currants, and then blueberries and raspberries, which tend to be smaller but tastier than the common chunky californian ones.
Berries are peculiar to these slightly more rocky, northern regions, which are naturally deprived of larger fruits. And the caribou feed off of these, hunting through the light snow to the lichen and small fruits hidden underneath. We, on the other hand, fed on partridge berry jam and pie and blueberry dough boys. Yummy.
And the good thing is the partridge berries stay yummy forever.. Even in Autumn once they froze on the ground with the cold (some wait until then to pick them) or now in our snowless Winter when I go on walks with my dog I eat some I find on the way… Yum!