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“Morels and Much More: An Overview of Spring Foraging”. This presentation will be a virtual field trip in search of local Spring bounty, featuring some of the Pacific Northwest’s most prized wild edibles. Additionally Langdon will tell you where to find these elusive culinary ingredients and how to prepare them in delicious meals. Slides of plants and fungi in their habitat and in finished dishes will have you reaching for your boots, baskets and saute pans. Q & A and Book Signing will follow the presentation.

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.” Cook’s work has been nominated for two James Beard Awards, a Society for Environmental Journalists award, and a Pushcart Prize. He has been profiled in Bon Appetit, WSJ magazine, Whole Living, and Salon.com, and his writing appears in numerous magazines, newspapers, and online journals, including National Geographic Travel, Outside, Eating Well, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and Seattle Magazine, where he was a regular columnist for a decade. Cook lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.