Quote from Nurit "I've eaten fiddleheads in restaurants -- delicious! What do you recommend as the best way to cook 'em?"

There are recipes online for cooking the Ostrich fern fiddleheads:

http://www.fiddle-heads.com/

http://gonewengland.about.com/od/fiddleh..._Collection.htm

BigCityHillBilly, I am really glad to learn that you shouldn't eat bracken fern fiddleheads in an emergency. Thank you for bringing this up.

Joy

Fern are a common diet in Borneo and I've eaten them in long houese often.

Not great but okay.

I've been told by non- natives that older ferns can cause stomach cancer due to the irritant nature of the 'hairs'. However, proper cooking of young fiddleheads should break them down , I think.

There does not seem to be e higher than normal rate of stomach cancer amomg the natives here