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My Mushroom Hunting Weekend

Last weekend, armed with my Opinel mushroom knife, I drove 2 hours up Highway 1 to Salt Point State Park on the Sonoma Coast to join other members of the Mycological Society of San Francisco on the mo...

Ingredient Spotlight: Wood Ear Mushrooms

Perhaps you've noticed these thin, brown slivers of crunchy, squeaky mushrooms in hot and sour soup or in stir-fries. Called wood ear mushrooms, they're more easily found in dried form, but fresh one...

Goodbye Tomatoes? Widespread Fungus Killing Off Crops

Those of us who live in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic need to enjoy our tomatoes while we can. A fungus called late blight—a strain of which caused the Irish potato famine—is rapidly destroying lo...

Seasonal Spotlight: Chanterelle Mushrooms

I love it when these meaty, golden yellow mushrooms show up in the Fall at Far West Fungi or the Alemany market. They sprout from September to February, and are profuse since insects and other animal...

Ingredient Spotlight: Huitlacoche

Huitlacoche is a grayish fungus that grows on corn and causes problems for farmers. However, what farmers may consider a "pest" is what many people in Mexico and the American Southwest consider a del...