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New Book Teaches Where, How, and What to Forage

Connie Green, a.k.a. The Mushroom Lady, appeared on KQED’s California Report over the weekend discussing her new book The Wild Table: Seasonal Foraged Food and Recipes. Some interesting takeaways from the interview: Prior to the early 1970s, Bay Area chefs had never cooked with a wild chanterelle mushroom; you shouldn’t eat anything you can’t identify “with great assurance,” and you should probably get some training; you can find “arguably some of the best black trumpet [mushrooms] in the world” in Northern California; you may want to try making your own elderflower liqueur, using, real foraged elderflowers from any number of trees in the Bay Area. Hear the full interview below.


The California Report: The Fine Art of Foraging [KQED]

New Book Teaches Where, How, and What to Forage