Press
Some of the places the work showed up.
Underground markets, wild food, glove laws, mushrooms, kitchen dreams, and the strange public trail of building food projects outside the normal lanes.
Featured
The useful proof.
SF Bay Guardian, 2010
Named a Local Hero in Best of the Bay
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SF Weekly, 2009
Out of the Wild: the front page cover story
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New York Times, 2011
Underground Market Food Raves
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New York Times, 2011
Wild Kitchen underground dining
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New York Times, 2023
Mushroom foraging in the West
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7x7 Magazine, 2012
Hot 30 Most Innovative in SF
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What they said
“San Francisco's Famed Forager”
HuffPost, 2011
“Rabins has been turning San Francisco's conception of fine dining on its head for nearly half a decade.”
HuffPost, 2012
“Rabins pioneered the Bay Area's burgeoning wild-foods movement when he founded ForageSF in 2009.”
SF Weekly, 2011
“His Underground Market, a veritable food carnival for budding producers, has grown into a national phenomenon.”
HuffPost, 2012
“Rabins has developed a devoted culinary cult following for his off-the-grid, gourmet venture.”
Civil Eats, 2010
More
A longer trail of food, law, foraging, and public experiments.
HuffPost, 2012
Underground Food Empire to the Masses
HuffPost, 2011
SF's Famed Forager Targeted by Dept of Health
CNN Travel
Going wild for food in San Francisco
Fast Company, 2011
Underground Market's shutdown
Outside Magazine
If You Live in a City, You Can Still Forage
Civil Eats, 2010
Wild Man Iso Rabins
KQED, 2012
Iso Rabins plans Forage Kitchen
Reason Magazine, 2012
Foraging a New Path
Reason Magazine, 2014
Glove law coverage
Bay Nature
The Forager's Dilemma
Sierra Club
Q&A: Iso Rabins, Gourmet Hunter-Gatherer
7x7, 2024
Recent mushroom foraging feature
Oaklandside, 2025
EIDL loans and Save Your Local