I had dinner at Tilth the other night in Seattle, owned by award-winning chef Maria Hines . One of the standouts of the evening was a small...

On Saturday I joined Doug and his friend Jeff for another day of picking. Hanging out with this pair reminded me of the sort of male camar...

Doug makes his living as a full-time, year-round mushroom picker. He picks the Washington Coast near his Westport home in the fall, travels ...

It's fall porcini time in the Pacific Northwest. This is perhaps my favorite of all the wild mushrooms. The season is late this year bec...

Say wha'? The Elwha River Valley, on the north end of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula .  Last week I backpacked into the Elw...

Congratulations to Lorna Yee over at The Cookbook Chronicles for winning my first ever recipe contest with her truly decadent Huckleberry S...

Maybe this is one of those  had to be there  moments but I can't resist sharing this short video with you all. The past two weeks of c...

Okay, maybe it wasn't exactly his first. Last year Riley hooked and caught a brookie on the fly with help from his dad. But this year t...

You hear the same old quote repeated endlessly about fennel pollen, something about the sprinkling of spice from the wings of angels. Let...

While hunting porcini the other day in the Colorado Rockies we stumbled on a large patch of wild strawberries ( Fragraria sp. ). Score! It...