Fiddleheads play a big part in local cuisine and economy

Rodney Taylor of Madison, Maine displays some freshly picked fiddleheads. (Fred J. Field) Fred J. Field

By Jonathan Levitt

Globe Correspondent / May 17, 2006

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On a sunny morning recently, Rick Tibbets is hunched over the muddy banks of the Scarborough River filling his T-shirt with fiddlehead ferns. In dark glasses, jeans, and beat-up hiking boots, the 48-year-old Tibbets is macho and muscular. Winters, he works as a line cook, but as soon as the forsythia buds, he's out in the woods, ... (Full article: 836 words)