This Urban Foraging Sketch Parodies the Growing Food Trend

Microscopic plates, mason jars, unpronounceable foods . . . sometimes the modern dining experience feels like a joke. And then there's foraging, the process of picking wild, edible ingredients. Shailene Woodley does it. Anthony Bourdain covered it in his show Parts Unknown. He ventured to Copenhagan's Noma (which is said to be the best restaurant in the world), eating dishes garnished with flowers, moss, dirt, and other things found in the great outdoors. According to Bourdain, this restaurant has "pioneered the notion of 'foraging' and taken it to an extreme that would be damn easy to mock."

And that's exactly what SnackFace Productions has done. The idea came to the team behind the sketch (Hannah Mescon and boyfriend Evan Yarbrough) when they were on a date at a trendy Los Angeles restaurant. They realized popular restaurant food trends, like foraging, have almost become a parody of themselves. They watched some documentaries on foraging, and the script for Urban Foraging was born. What do you think about foraging? Would you ever try it?