THE BLACK TRUMPET ( Craterellus sp. ) is one my favorite wild mushrooms for the table. Like its cousins in the chanterelle family, it...

Hey Washingtonians, I’ll be giving several slide presentations across the state this October about wild foods, foraging, and...

West Coast woods from NorCal to BC are loaded with oyster mushrooms right now—and it's nice to see the excitement they're stirri...

What do you do when it snows in Seattle? Make a Huckleberry Snow Cone! While I was out skiing around the neighborhood this morning, my d...

Last year my friend Taichi Kitamura, chef/owner of Sushi Kappo Tamura  in Seattle, gave me a set of two dobin mushi teapots he'd recen...

Now entering its 14th year, the non-profit Oregon Truffle Festival 's mission is to educate the public about native-grown truffles in ...

It's time to tackle the honey mushroom. I haven't written about it before because it's not among my favorites in the Kingdom o...

Everyone at the Mekong Market on Rainier Avenue knew what I was up to. The proprietor, a small gentleman always on the move, paused long e...

I GOT A CALL from Doug (of The Mushroom Hunters ) the other day. He's bivouacked somewhere down in Humboldt or Mendocino County pickin...

Recently I had the pleasure of talking with Jason Rolfe, a writer and fishing guide who uses fly-fishing as the put-in to navigate an ever...