With eyes as clean as glass, wide, satisfied, she held out a handful of wild berries.

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"We ate wild berries for breakfast and spit-roasted mountain goat for dinner, " she told the Moscow Times in 2002.

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Innocent Smoothies sent five of its team to a 12-hour foraging course in Kent recently, and foodie magazines regularly feature celebrity chef recipes including wild mushrooms, truffles and wild berries.

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Except for wild game, wild mushrooms, wild berries and fish and shellfish, virtually all the food in European and American diets has long been derived from genetically modified organisms yes, even the organic stuff at Whole Foods and the local farmers market.

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The gentle vegetarians eat up to 45 pounds a day of things like bamboo shoots, wild celery and berries.

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The Swiss national first picked wild garlic shoots in the Nidwalden canton near Lucerne, before discovering that he could eat berries and a variety of mushrooms.

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