So what do they taste like?
Acorn season around here, anybody eat them?
- Thread starter atikovi
- Start date
Haven't tried it but heard about them. Supposedly like flour once they're properly leached of the tannins, but a bit of a nutty flavor.
There's a local restaurant that actually serves some food with acorns. It's operated by members of the local Ohlone community, but it's kind of expensive and has limited opening times at the anthropology museum at UC Berkeley.
Cafe Ohlone — mak-'amham/Cafe Ohlone
www.makamham.com
It takes no less than six months to make acorn soup, a simple but meaningful Ohlone dish.
Acorns must be gathered in the fall, then cured for months until they’re ready to be cracked open and milled into a powder so fine it fits into the weave of a traditional sifting basket. It sits in water overnight — drawing out any bitterness and leaving only sweetness behind — and then cooks down into a thick porridge.
Life is too short to eat acorns
Similar threads
