Wickaninnish Inn chef gets to know his ingredients through foraging in forests and beaches

ABOARD THE MV POLAR PRINCE — As executive chef at the Wickaninnish Inn, Warren Barr is not content with buying local. He insists on foraging local, too, gumbooting through the rainforests and along the beaches and becoming intimate with his ingredients.
“I like to bring the outside in,” Barr explains. “You’re going to cook better if it’s something you have a connection to.”
In the forests around Tofino, on Vancouver Island’s west coast, he regularl