Fat of the Land
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Frozen Matsutake

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I found two frosty packages in the back of the freezer the other day: matsutake buttons, four of them. According to the labels, I had pic...
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Saturday, November 17, 2012

A Forager's Thanksgiving

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Here in the Pacific Northwest, we're lucky to have a climate that allows for foraging year-round, even during the dark, wet days of...
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Friday, November 9, 2012

Wild Mushroom and Root Vegetable Gratin

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Reconstructing restaurant dishes at home is a time-honored way to improve one's chops in the kitchen. Rather than slavishly following ...
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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Wild Watercress Potstickers

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I love potstickers so much that—until the other day—I had never cooked them at home. Make sense? They occupied a place in my mind that was...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Matsutake and Shellfish Soup

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I've been getting emails about our lackluster fall mushroom season in the Pacific Northwest. Even NPR did a story on it —and they pret...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

Foraging's Golden Rule

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It happens every year. Someone eats poisonous mushrooms and winds up in the hospital—or worse. Then I get well-meani...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Wild Berry Sorbet

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We finally got a light drizzle, and forecasters are calling for actual rain later this weekend. In two decades of living in Seattle I'...
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Saturday, October 6, 2012

Elderflower Panna Cotta with Elderberry Syrup

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I'm sure I don't have to ask whether you put up quantities of elderflower cordial and elderberry syrup this year...right? I'...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

Hunter's Ed

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The hunting memoir is becoming a regular feature of the spring and fall publishing seasons—even as the number of  hunters in the U.S. ...
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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Steak and Chanterelle Stroganoff

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Golden chanterelles got off to a banging start this summer—and then 48 straight days of rainless weather stopped the flush cold. Here we a...
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Langdon Cook
Seattle, WA
Award-winning author of Upstream, The Mushroom Hunters and Fat of the Land, Langdon Cook is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors. Cook has been profiled in Bon Appetit, WSJ magazine, and Salon.com, and his writing has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and online journals including National Geographic Traveler and Eating Well. His on-screen credits include the PBS TV series "Food Forward."
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