Raivo Kalle

Raivo Kalle, PhD is an Estonian ethnobiologist, botanist, science historian, food culture researcher. He has worked at the Estonian Literary Museum (2006-2017 and from 2023 to the present) and furthered his education at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy (2019–2021). His research on Estonian natural food plants, plants used in Estonian folk medicine, plant names and the use of plants in rituals has received wide attention. He has published his research in dozens of internationally recognized journals and with dozens of co-authors. He has done ethnobiological fieldwork in Estonia, Latvia and Belarus. Together with Renata Sõukand, he has published a monograph in Estonian, “Eesti loodus-likud toidutaimed” (2013 and reprint 2022) and “Changes in the use of wild food plants in Estonia” (2016) in English. He has also compiled and edited a collection of food culture “Estonian Ark of Taste” (in Estonian) (2021).

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