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Ombretta and her friend and teacher with their bounty: wild herbs, greens and beautiful purple flowers.
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Hunting for Wild Salad (123)Ombretta: Each spring wild herbs and greens appear in the Tuscan countryside, and this year a woman showed us just which ones to pick.
Douglas: All you need is a basket, a knife to dig up the roots and some knowledge of what you're looking for.
Ombretta: It's a lot of fun. We filled three baskets.
Douglas: To go hunting for wild salad is to see a way of life that's quickly disappearing all across Italy.
Ombretta: In a world where people hardly have a moment to shop for groceries, how can they find time to head into the hills looking for food?
Douglas: You're right. It's too bad, because they'll never know what they're missing. We'd be walking through fields of purple flowers and this woman would stop, grab what looked like a weed, hold it out, and tell us to take a bite.
Ombretta: And it was so delicious! Who could've ever known that what looks like weeds growing on the ground could taste so good.
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