Winifred Bird: Foraging, Nature and Japanese Culture

Beyond Talking Points, hosted by Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley, provides author and community focused interviews to highlight a diverse range of perspectives on various topics.
Winifred Bird is a journalist, translator and the author of Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods.
Winifred translates Japanese nonfiction and fiction and edits translations from Japanese. She is a member of the Third Coast Translator’s Collective, an international community of literary translators in the Chicago area, a member of the Society of Editors, Writers, and Translators, and a winner of the 3rd JLPP International Translation Competition, for translations of texts by Ekuni Kaori and Tereda Torahiko.
0:00 Intro
2:22 Dreaming of moving to the country
5:07 Moving to rural Japan
7:34 Learning to speak Japanese
9:30 A typical day of foraging
11:54 What's poisonous and what's not
13:58 Going out without a translator
15:46 Urbanization, fading connection to the land
20:38 Tochi-mochi Tree, forest conversion
23:04 Nature provides for us
27:46 Fukashima disaster
29:23 A bell to warn off bears
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I love this interview- thank you for sharing this conversation! I am looking forward to catching up with Winifred Bird today - a year after our first talk about her interesting book about foraging wild foods in Japan. I love that story of the bears and the bell too! I will give this talk a shoutout in my interview today :) czcams.com/video/TQj8SOFlIAo/video.html