fat of the land

“Finding wild food is like going on a great treasure hunt,” says wild food writer Langdon Cook, whose books include “Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager.”

I haven’t gotten to Step 2 on my plan to light out and live off the saturated fat of the land.

Benjamin Miller, the author of “Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York, the Last 200 Years” and the policy director for the Center for Zero Waste Design, agrees.

The black-eyed peas are to bring luck to your year; the greens are for hopes of money and good fortune; the pork is a reminder to live off of the fat of the land; and the sweet potatoes are to remind us of the sweetness of life.

Secure from attack, living off the fat of the land, in his mind’s eye he saw it all: those mice and the woodland creatures enslaved, living just to serve him.