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Forager Alexis Nikole Nelson Wants You to Go Outside
The Columbus resident is using social media to spread the gospel of wild food and it’s working.
Columbus Monthly
Alexis Nikole Nelson is fond of saying she’s been eating food off the ground since she was a kid. While it sounds like a funny “kids do the darndest things” moment, it’s true in Nelson’s case. And she remembers her first experience with wild food clearly.
She was 5 years old, running around her mom’s garden in Cincinnati with her “tiny trowel, digging in the dirt,” when her mom introduced her to onion grass. The grass, which grows in tall, thin tubes, is considered an invasive weed and also an edible one. It has a distinct onion smell and is similar in look and taste to chives.
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Nikki Steward s Star Turn
Columbus Monthly
Long before she was catering Dave Chappelle’s Summer Camp or Diddy’s Super Bowl party, Nikki Steward started in the same place countless other chefs have: grandma’s kitchen. Growing up, Steward says her grandmother was the only person she knew who cooked from scratch. Sunday dinners after church were a staple in Steward’s family, and by the time she was a preteen, she was helping prepare the meals.
“At one point, my grandmother started passing the torch to me and was like, ‘You got all of it.’ I was like, ‘Wait, I didn’t want to do all of it. You can still make some pound cake, because those are your thing,’” Steward says laughing when we talk via phone in October.