Alexis Nikole Nelson Instagram – ACORN CHEESE. FRIENDSHIP. FORAGED FOOD. FUN. CRYING A LITTLE BECAUSE OF HOW GOOD THE ACORN CHEESE IS. When @the_c_u_r_b Introduced me to the minds behind @honeybadgerbk, within minutes it felt like having dinner with a group of old friends. Junayd and Fjölla are these bright and shining humans, with so much love in their hearts for people and for foraged food!! I was lucky enough to dine at Honey Badger last night with @sophia_roe, and the multi course meal was nothing short of inspirational. I wish I had stronger words to describe it!! It made me simultaneously want to stay in that cozy cabin forever, living the rest of my life transported by food to familiar places, familiar times; and also made me want to run all the way home to Ohio and leap into the kitchen ready to concoct and process and mix and ferment and PLAY! I could write an entire essay on the experience (I will, but I won’t make y’all read it unless you wanna), but I just needed to scream about how phenomenal wild food can be. How phenomenal it IS. Shoutout to @edible.excursions (who forages for Honey Badger and is also an all around sweet bean!) and @mallorylodonnell who has foraged for them in the past, who I can’t have pushki without thinking of! I’ll mention one last thing. Nothing has made me more excited for winter than the magnolia aperitif with which we opened the meal. The first taste transports you to the chilly day in early spring, closing your eyes to take that first inhale of the first magnolia of the year, and suddenly the months of dark, the months of rest make sense. Okay I’m tearing up writing this because I’m a GOOBER, so I’m gonna call it here! If you read this far, I love you, thank you for listening, go to Honey Badger if you’re able. If you didn’t read this far, HOW WILL YOU KNOW I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUU Brooklyn, New York