In preparation for a four-course Wild Mushroom Dinner, Tyler Akabane forages and fills a basket in the Lynn woods. And he ...

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Gene Thacker piqued my interest and curiosity this week while I was in his “Battery Specialists” shop getting new ones for my truck. He reported finding “hen of the woods” mushrooms this past week and ...

This year’s wet weather seems to be spawning an unusually sizable harvest for fans of hen of the woods, a ruffled, circular earth-toned mushroom that grows at the base of trees. Also known as maitake, ...

Foragers have been harvesting wild mushrooms in what is now Pennsylvania and the rest of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region for centuries, but the extent and specifics of the practice in the region has not ...

There is some great eating out there in the fungal world, and some of the best-tasting mushrooms are also quite safe, with no or few poisonous look-alikes. But every article about edible mushrooms ...

It's possible to imagine Bruno Iacovone and Deana Tempest Thomas unknowingly searching the same woods on a brilliant autumn day and gazing so hard at the next decomposing stump, or the base of those ...

Hen of the Woods (a.k.a. Maitake) are a variety of mushroom with a robust earthy aroma and caps that fan out like a feathered plume. After reading the name of this dish you'd be forgiven if you were ...