Pascal Baudar
Shadow Hills / Verdugo Mountains, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Quality assessment
Caveats
PERSON, NOT A FARM/CORPORATE ENTITY (cf. Dudley Market/Conner Mitchell precedent, and cf. Don Watson no-row precedent where identity could NOT be confirmed): here identity and chef relationships ARE independently and first-party confirmed, so a row is inserted despite being an individual, per taxonomy 'score the entity type, not the string' -- entity_kind='producer' is an approximation (he forages/wildcrafts rather than cultivates or raises). His teaching business 'Urban Outdoor Skills' is separately documented (classes/workshops) and is NOT confirmed to be the same commercial vehicle as his direct chef-supply foraging practice -- left unmerged rather than assumed identical. verification_status='claimed' (no registry/certification exists for an individual wildcrafter) even though identity confidence is high.
Individual professional forager and master preserver based in the Verdugo Mountains (Shadow Hills), LA. Wildcrafts and preserves (cans/dries/smokes/ferments/pickles) wild plants and delivers them directly to a roster of LA chefs. Author of foraging/fermentation books; also runs a named teaching business, Urban Outdoor Skills (foraging classes, traditional food preservation). LA Magazine (2015) profiles him supplying chef Ludo Lefebvre and names Curtis Stone, Josiah Citrin, and Matt Biancaniello as other chef clients.
Products
wild-foraged plants, herbs, fungi (seasonal, foraged not cultivated)
Served at
Sources
What the quality assessment above is built on.
- lamag.com ↗
Los Angeles Magazine full profile: 'professional forager and master preserver,' Shadow Hills resident, supplies chef Ludo Lefebvre directly ('stuffing Ziploc bags with elderberries and black mustard flowers for chef Ludo Lefebvre, because that's what Baudar does for a living'); also names Curtis Stone, Josiah Citrin, Matt Biancaniello as clients (NOT n/naka -- n/naka link comes from separate sources below)
- forbes.com ↗
first-party: n/naka chef Niki Nakayama names Pascal Baudar directly as 'a professional forager... who works in Los Angeles. He took us foraging a few times'
- beautifulnow.is ↗
independent feature naming n/naka's use of 'master forager Pascal Baudar' alongside Dock to Dish
- urbanoutdoorskills.com ↗
own-site: 'Through his business, Urban Outdoor Skills' -- confirms a named business entity exists, description centers on teaching/classes