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Foraging wild foods is very much at the heart of Finnishness, where everyone has the right to pick wild berries and mushrooms even on private property. Yet there is a surprisingly big disconnect between the field and the plate. Commercial Spanish strawberries, bred for long shipping, are far easier to find on Helsinki menus than the wild Finnish strawberry exploding with the flavor of 20 hours of sunshine a day. And although Finns have figured out how to safely prepare korvasieni, a poisonous false-morel mushroom, by boiling it three times, porcini were long considered reindeer fodder...
...this season. Defensive Line It was arguably the best in the nation a year ago, but with two starters missing and another regular contributor gone as well, two new starters—junior end Peter Ajayi and sophomore tackle Chuks Obi—have a lot of slack to pick up. They’ll get help from defensive end Brad Bagdis and tackle Matt Curtis, as well as from junior Sonny McCracken on the other end spot...
None of those guys is more important to Harvard than Mazza, who currently ranks second in both receiving yards and touchdowns in team history. He needs six touchdowns to tie Morris’ all-time mark of 28, but he probably won’t pick up the over 1,300 receiving yards necessary to break Morris’ record in that category...
Sanders had microfracture surgery last February—the same surgery that will sideline the first pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, Greg Oden—in order to repair damaged cartilage in his knee, a procedure that can require more than a year of recovery...
Despite the loss of linebacker and Giants draft pick Zak DeOssie, the defense will return eight starters, including three All-Ivy selections. Those players, however, forced a league-low eight turnovers last season. The Bears must improve the running game, which averaged only 3.4 yards per carry last season—sixth in the Ivies. Quarterback Michael Daugherty is in his first year as a starter, and Brown must also replace four starters from the offensive line...