Nature's Secret Pantry: Wild Edible Fungi from Patch to Plate

Explore our forests with award-winning author and culinary adventurer Langdon Cook, on a quest to find the region’s most sought after wild mushrooms for the table. Slides of fungi in their habitat and in finished dishes will have you reaching for your boots, baskets, and sauté pans. Q&A and book signing to follow. Registration required.

Langdon Cook is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors. His books include Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table (Ballantine, May 2017), a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America, winner of the 2014 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager, which The Seattle Times called “lyrical, practical and quixotic.” A graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont (BA) and the University of Washington (MFA), Cook lives in Seattle with his wife, poet Martha Silano.