These chanterelles could all be yours tomorrow.
  • Foraged & Found Edibles
  • These chanterelles could all be yours tomorrow.

Foraged & Found Edibles, which has been supplying the city’s best restaurants with wild mushrooms such as hedgehog, porcini, matsutake, chanterelle, and black trumpet (as well as all sorts of other wild edibles like nettles and huckleberries), is now making its bounty available to everyone in Seattle and beyond. The company just announced an online ordering service through which pounds of wild mushrooms—both fresh and dried—are delivered straight to people’s kitchens the next day. The products are “FedExed to you, anywhere in the lower 48.” (If you order, you better be ready to cook—the minimum order for fresh mushrooms is three pounds. For smaller quantities, Seattleites can also visit Foraged & Found every Sunday at the Ballard Farmer’s Market.)

Founded in 2001 by chefs Jeremy Faber and Christina Choi, Foraged & Found is now run by Faber, who drives around 80,000 miles a year all over the Pacific Northwest in order to collect wild foods at the peak of their season. Faber, a man for whom work is a lifestyle and an obsession, regularly works twenty-plus hours a day, year-round. A recent NPR profile of Faber includes a delightful guided tour of his mushroom-filled house, which also happens to be the company’s headquarters. In Faber’s words, “The house just smells like earth. . .as if you stuck your head in mud and then buried yourself in sand and sawdust. It would be the equivalent of having 200 pounds of potpourri in your basement. You’re definitely going to smell that.”

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