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Earphones Award Success (AudioFile Mag) In the traditions of Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Issue, Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief, and Tag Kurlansky's Cod - a renowned culinary adventurer goes into the woods with the iconoclasts and outlaws who seek the world's most sought after component...and one of nature's previous truly outdoors foods: the uncultivated, uncontrollable mushroom. Within the dark corners of America's forests grow culinary treasures. Chefs pay a lot of money to showcase these elusive and beguiling elements on their selections. Whether dressing a filet mignon with smoky morels or shaving luxurious white truffles over pasta, the most beautiful restaurants across the country now feature a good amount of outdoors mushrooms. The mushroom hunters, by contrast, are a hard lot. They reside in the wilderness and move with the times of year. Motivated by Yellow metal Rush needs, they haul improbable levels of fungi from the woods for cash. Langdon Make embeds himself in this shadowy subculture, confirming from both rural fringes and big-city eateries with the flair of your novelist, uncovering along the way what might be the previous gasp of frontier-style capitalism. Meet Doug, an ex-logger and crabber - now an itinerant mushroom picker trying to pay his bills and stay out of trouble; and Jeremy, a ex - cook turned outdoors food business owner, crisscrossing the continent to create a business amid cutthroat competition; their good friend Matt, an up-and-coming chef whose kitchen alchemy is turning mind; and the woman who inspires all of them. High with the science and lore of edible fungi - from seductive chanterelles to spectacular porcini - The Mushroom Hunters is identical parts gonzo travelogue and culinary history lessons, a rollicking, character-driven travel through a world that is by turns secretive, dangerous, and tragically North american.
