Anything on catching salmon? Eating berries? How about delicious grubs?

Sorry, i know i'm late, but i need to store up fat before hibernation. Can you suggest any relevant literature?
Please, no Farley Mowatt, Bill Bryson or Jon Krakauer, they gave me indigestion.

I don't know about salmon, but these books teach some good survival food-finding skills:
My Side of the Mountain
The Education of Little Tree

This might have some insights on the grub question...

>5 spiphany:. That’s surprisingly lovely. Thanks for sharing.

Mycelium Running, expanding your diet choices.

For a minute I thought this was an actual question about wild foods, and was prepared to suggest something, but it looks like it's just a joke on the group picture.

Pacific Northwest Foraging, perhaps.

>8 lorax: It can't be both? I love the group picture.

Also, "delicious grubs" might have been a hint. Although i did grow up dying to try honey ants.

>5 spiphany: loved that.

People do in fact eat grubs and insects. (I haven't had grubs myself, but grasshopper tacos can be tasty.) And if you're in a survival/foraging situation, they're easy-to-obtain protein.

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Cook-and-EAT-Giant-Grubs/

There's even a video.

>11 lorax:
Indeed. It turns out that insects are very efficient at converting plant matter to protein and they have consequently been proposed as one option for making our food system more sustainable in the future (see, e.g. here). Alongside crickets and grasshoppers, mealworms (which I guess would qualify as grubs) are one of the candidates for such a future diet.

In theory I think it's an intriguing idea, though I have some trouble getting past culturally-engrained ideas about what counts as food and what doesn't (and insects are definitely traditionally in the "not food" category for most Westerners).

I think you'll find The Complete Works of William Shakespeare to be quite filling. War and Peace would also be a dense main course, with one of the later Harry Potter's, one of 500 pages or more, being a hefty dessert. Cover with cinnamon and maple syrup.

>11 lorax: I reckon that in a survival/foraging situation, your less-combat-ready compatriots would be the most easy-to-obtain protein. I'm sure that the ursine gentleman in the group photo would agree.But that's a whole other thread.

There's Night of the Grizzlies by Jack Olsen. It almost fits in the true-crime thread, too.

I'm reminded of Euell Gibbons...

The first thing I thought of was How to Travel with a Salmon...... after all, you will want to bring the food home after you find it.

Katie Letcher Lyle talks of vegetarian options in North America: The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts; The Foraging Gourmet; and The Wild Berry Book: Romance, Recipes, & Remedies.

>14 mstrust: I'll add that it's best for long-term health to only consume biodegradable books made with edible ink.