![]() He has lectured at colleges, public libraries, writer’s conferences, culinary schools, mycological societies, outdoors clubs-even Google. 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.” He speaks and offers classes regularly on wild foods, foraging, the outdoors, his books, and the creative writing process. Langdon Cook is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors. From morels to porcini to oyster mushrooms (and many more), Langdon will present slides of local delicacies in their habitat as well as in finished dishes-just in time for the beginning of another year of mushroom hunting! Q&A and book signing to follow. ![]() ![]() Join award-winning author and forager Langdon Cook for a virtual stroll through the woods in search of the Pacific Northwest’s best edible fungi of spring. ![]()
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