fat of the land

The brash electronic group’s 1997 LP “The Fat of The Land” had topped charts in the U.S. and heralded the mainstreaming of underground rave culture, which would morph into the EDM boom here a decade later.

Do big statement-piece albums like “The Fat of the Land” still feel possible today?

“Finding wild food is like going on a great treasure hunt,” says wild food writer Langdon Cook, whose books include “Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager.”

I haven’t gotten to Step 2 on my plan to light out and live off the saturated fat of the land.

Benjamin Miller, the author of “Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York, the Last 200 Years” and the policy director for the Center for Zero Waste Design, agrees.