Sapna is also great at foraging for food—not in her refrigerator for lettuce that hasn’t gone bad, the way I do, but in the actual woods with dirt and chipmunks. She makes meals from foraged fiddlehead ferns, wild raspberries, hard little apples, and, occasionally, mushrooms. She was thrilled one fall when she found a cluster of hen of the woods at the base of a tree in a nearby park. She gathered them in a paper bag, brought the mushrooms home, sautéed them with butter, and served them over pasta at lunch for her husband, Nick, and her son, Sathya, nine, and daughter, Priya, six.
