Fly fishermen like to joke about PhD trout and poindexter anglers crawling the banks spouting Latin. On first blush it may seem pretentiou...

I wrote about the Pink Invasion in the July issue of Seattle Magazine . Truth be told, since that article first appeared I've been too...

Each summer we visit family in the Colorado Rockies, where it's tradition to kick off the trip with a walk up to the same overlook, a ...

The first day I visited the burn, in early June, there wasn't a car in sight. The fire had burned right down to the logging road and a...

My new book The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America  has been included as an Editor's Pick in Amazon's Big F...

The hot dry weather in the Pacific Northwest has pushed the berry season along at a rapid clip. It looks like the red huckleberries have a...

When beginner mushroom hunters ask me how to find fungi, I have two answers. First, join a mycological society and go on a foray; there...

In eastern Washington, wild Saskatoons ( Amelanchier alnifolia )—aka western serviceberry, shadbush, and juneberry—grow near the extensive...

When friends from out of town come to visit, I often take them to Lark , John Sundstrom's Seattle restaurant, which is celebrating a d...

Dear Readers: Please visit and bookmark my new web site, LangdonCook.com . The site, though still in its first iteration and without a...