I spend every fall dreaming of hunting in the musty corners of Seattle’s forests and parks for wild mushrooms. The October rains come, and I pull out my mushroom journal and David Arora’s 1,000-page classic Mushrooms Demystified. But, inevitably, the fall fungus season comes and goes and I’ve hardly identified a single mushroom at all.
This fall is going to be different. I’m going to eat some wild mushrooms, even if I have to pay for them. My foraging adventure started and ended not in the woods but at Sosio’s Fruit & Produce in Pike Place Market, where Sam Kallaway, the store owner’s nephew, told me it’s the perfect time to buy foraged mushrooms.
