Explore the Pacific Northwest’s spring woods with award-winning author and culinary adventurer Langdon Cook, on a quest to find the region’s most sought after wild mushrooms for the table. Slides of fungi in their habitat and in finished dishes will have you reaching for your boots, baskets, and sauté pans. Q&A and book signing to follow.

About the presenter: Langdon Cook is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors. His books include Upstream, The Mushroom Hunters, winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Fat of the Land. 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,Whole Living, and Salon.com, and his writing appears in numerous magazines, newspapers, and online journals, including National Geographic, Outside, and Eating Well.