Foraging is not as foolproof as the blogosphere would sometimes have us believe, even when you have a solid handle on plant ID, habitat, a...

Have you ever thought about making your own dolmas, those miraculous pouches of gustatory goodness? Most of us get our dolmas the easy way...

Now is the time to stand up for salmon, grizzly bears, the 10,000-year-old cultures of Native Alaskans, and one of North America's si...

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of introducing national NPR correspondent Martin Kaste to the woods—and all the possibilities for nouri...

These jaunty Independence Day colors seem appropriate for a July Fourth post—with a dash of green added to the red, white, and blue becaus...

It's getting a little late in the season to talk about spring kings, but it seems that every year I learn a little bit more about th...

In 1998 I spent six months working in the UK. Martha and I lived in a flat in the dingy London suburb Slough (rhymes with cow) made famous...

I get asked about chowders a lot, especially by transplanted East Coasters, many of whom fondly remember a thick and creamy boardwalk-styl...

They look like something from the deep, or even outer space. Coral mushrooms, also called deer antlers or doghair, are a family ( Clavaria...

It's a tough year for morels—and morel hunters—in the Pacific Northwest. My guess is that there isn't a pers...