Cook’s Adventures

Forage for These Underrated Mushrooms on Your Next Hiking Trip

Forage for These Underrated Mushrooms on Your Next Hiking Trip

Got milk caps? Seek out these underappreciated wild mushrooms

Milk caps are identified by their orange color and well-defined gills

These Underrated Wild Berries Are Worth Foraging For

These Underrated Wild Berries Are Worth Foraging For

Life is sweeter once you’ve picked a basket of salal or Oregon grape berries

A young fan picks a bunch of Oregon grape berries; the plant can be identified by its holly-like leaflets

Rose Hips: A Cure For What Ails You

Rose Hips: A Cure For What Ails You

The master forager fights the common cold with help from nature's Emergen-C.

My first priority as a forager is to enjoy the fresh air. Second is a good meal. Third—and not a distant third, mind you—is the inherent health benefits of wild foods. Nature will take care of us if we let her. A walk along Lake Union in November can satisfy all three. True, my preference…

Cook’s Adventures: Fearless Foraging for Dungeness Crab

Cook’s Adventures: Fearless Foraging for Dungeness Crab

Ever grab a hand bare-handed? Here’s why Langdon Cook thinks it’s a good idea.

Tropical scenes in our corner of the continent are infrequent, but last summer, on one of those bluebird July days, I watched a guy in board shorts, tank top and sandals casually employ a foot pump to inflate a small rubber raft a stone’s throw from the Mukilteo ferry. Satisfied with its seaworthiness, he hopped…

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