By Langdon Cook
In the culture of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s issue, Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, and Mark Kurlansky’s Cod—a popular culinary adventurer is going into the woods with the iconoclasts and outlaws who search the world’s so much coveted element . . . and one among nature’s final actually wild meals: the uncultivated, uncontrollable mushroom.
Within the darkish corners of America’s forests develop culinary treasures. cooks pay most sensible greenback to show off those elusive and beguiling constituents on their menus. no matter if dressing up a filet mignon with smoky morels or shaving sumptuous white cakes over pasta, the main based eating places around the state now function an abundance of untamed mushrooms.
The mushroom hunters, in contrast, are a coarse lot. They dwell within the wasteland and movement with the seasons. encouraged through Gold Rush wishes, they haul inconceivable amounts of fungi from the woods for money. Langdon prepare dinner embeds himself during this shadowy tradition, reporting from either rural fringes and big-city eateries with the aptitude of a novelist, uncovering alongside the way in which what should be the final gasp of frontier-style capitalism.
Meet Doug, an ex-logger and crabber—now an itinerant mushroom picker attempting to pay his money owed and remain out of difficulty; and Jeremy, a former cook dinner became wild nutrition entrepreneur, crisscrossing the continent to construct a company amid cutthroat festival; their pal Matt, an up-and-coming chef whose kitchen alchemy is popping heads; and the lady who evokes them all.
wealthy with the technological know-how and lore of suitable for eating fungi—from seductive chanterelles to unique porcini—The Mushroom Hunters is equivalent components gonzo travelogue and culinary historical past lesson, a rollicking, character-driven travel via an international that's through turns secretive, harmful, and tragically American.
Praise for The Mushroom Hunters
“A rollicking narrative . . . cook dinner [delivers] bright and cinematic scenes on each page.”—The Wall highway Journal
“Like Susan Orlean in The Orchid Thief, Seattle writer [Langdon] prepare dinner shines a mild on a shady culture working on the seam among wasteland and trade. Like writer Michael Pollan, he is familiar with that each chew of nutrition nowadays has a posh, frequently unsavory backstory. just like the past due Hunter Thompson, he not just is going alongside for the journey with the shifty characters he’s writing approximately, yet drives the getaway vehicle. After interpreting The Mushroom Hunters, you’ll by no means examine a portobello a similar method. . . . [A] beguiling, fabulous book.”—The Seattle Times
“Not easily approximately mushrooms, this publication examines human habit, economics, foodstuff, society, and nature. in any case, readers could have realized greatly approximately U.S. monetary and social structures—all whereas being entertained and enlightened by way of tales of gastronomy and mushrooms. hugely recommended.”—Library Journal
“Intrepid and inspired.”—Publishers Weekly
“Uncultivated mushrooms are one among our final really wild meals; it usually takes actually wild and tough mushroom hunters to carry them to our desk. cook dinner travels and hunts with them in a riveting, loopy project, instructed in often-poetic prose.”—Shelf Awareness
“Cook’s sketches of those targeted and idiosyncratic characters aren’t regularly entirely sympathetic, yet he makes each one of them real.”—Booklist
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