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at stops me from being completely gung-ho about this scavenging idea. Rosin suggests going out with group of friends, so that everyone feels less self-conscious. I chose not to take anything home, not out of concern for the food’s cleanliness, but because I didn’t bring anything to carry my findings.

 

New York City is unique because its garbage is out on display and not locked in a dumpster. There are no trespassing issues, which is often the number one concern of a dumpster diver.

 

Libba Letton, a spokesperson for Whole Foods, has no specific problem with people rummaging through trash as long as they aren’t breaking into a dumpster. “For food safety reasons, I wouldn’t suggest anyone do it, but unless a specific store has a policy on it, it’s not illegal,” she said.

 

Rosin warns that police harassment is typical because cops assume the person is impoverished if they look through trash. And people can be fined for litter if they make a mess. To avoid the public, she goes out late on weekdays, under the veil of night.

 

Switch to day, Sunday, a sunny day after three rainy days, where Cindy Rosin meets Zaac Chaves, a 27- year-old student from Greenwich, Connecticut, and 20 or so other freegans for the monthly foraging tour in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Chaves is a self-taught mycologist, meaning he knows mushrooms and can even give their Latin names, like Tremella mesenterica, or witch’s butter, a fungus that looks like ginger on the side of a sushi platter, only yellow, and which he finds growing on a log.

 

He offers a taste. I refuse. One shouldn’t go around trying wild mushrooms. But witch’s butter apparently goes well in soup. I do pick up some ginkgo leaves to make tea. The NYC Department of Parks & Recreation considers foraging illegal without a permit, although fallen leaves don’t pose a problem.

 

We walk along a stone path through the park. A dandelion got lost and grew from a crack in the pavement. “In a metaphysical way you can consume it,” Chaves says about the flower, “because it shows how resilient things can be.” His shoes are made of duct tape and his pants would beat a quilt in a patchwork contest, but he’s right. The whole freegan philosophy settles on the idea that one doesn’t have to rely on capitalism or corporate America for food; that sustenance is a trash day away or a walk in the park, that food is exotic based on the unusual places one can find it and not its exotic name.

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