I first met travel and food writer Joe Ray a few years ago when the two of us read together at Seattle Lit Crawl . At the time, the New Ha...

The saffron milk cap is a wild mushroom that most pot hunters leave to the Russians . That's too bad because it's tasty and abunda...

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...