A couple weekends ago, while attending the Sunshine Coast Mushroom Festival in British Columbia, I got a bite of a Wild Mushroom Strude...

It's another dry fall in the Cascades. The new normal. Even so, mushrooms are up if you know where to look. I visited one of my favori...

With nearly 7 million pink salmon forecasted to return to Puget Sound rivers this year, just about everyone I know has been hitting the be...

Seattle is bursting at the seams. Growing pains are being felt in all sorts of ways. Besides the traffic, an increase in fishing pressure ...

Fish stews—bouillabaisse, cioppino , chowder , bisque, fish head soup , and so on—are some of my favorite meals. Don't let the authent...

The Southeast has intrigued me for a long time for its diversity of plants and fungi, a diversity I'd mostly read about in books. ...

The other day I scouted some of my early morel spots to see if there might be anything starting to pop, given the ridiculously mild winte...

UPDATE: We have a winner! Stinging Nettle Spanikopita. This is a recipe I've been meaning to try for a while and the author provided a...

It's that time again for those of us on the West Coast. The woods and meadows are waking up. Wild greens—tasty, nutritious, free—decor...

Last week I was forced to play the bi-annual standup freezer defrosting game. My freezer cost me zero dollars to haul away from some guy...