However they may be served and eaten, mushrooms you must make yours at any cost.
Learn to like them, WILL to like them, or else your brief sojourn on this earth
will be
a wretched waste.
Pennell, The Delights of Delicate Eating, 1896
Classes
Join Asheville's epicure of the obscure on a quest for the edible and incredible: sumptuous morels and fragrant chanterelles, day lily tamales and stinging nettle fritters, roadkill carpaccio and acorn larvae petit fours. You'll learn how to safely find, identify, appreciate, maybe even eat these elusive delights. You'll also learn about wild medicinals, dyeing with mushrooms (that's D-Y-E) and more, all with The Mushroom Man's unique blend of poetry, stories, wit & wisdom. Short, easy walks; all ages welcome. Wild mushroom tasting and 42-page introductory e-book included. Space is limited and pre-registration is required.
To read more about mushrooms, forage ahead...
Together we'll travel to my secret spots in my Solara convertible (when you're from Miami, that's important), then we'll come back to your place or mine and cook up what we've found.
Come to Asheville overnight, for a weekend, or longer! Accomodations available.
Prices per person: |
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| lunch (9-2pm) | dinner (2-8:30pm) | lodging/nt | |
| 1 adult | $150 | $175 | $75 |
| 2 adults | $100 | $125 | $50 |
| children (3-10) | $25 | $30 | $20 |
To register for classes or other outings, click here:
What a day full of fun memories. I loved driving around the magnificent mountains in your open chariot.
From shrooming around to tooling around, it was a treat...
What a delight. We found a huge cluster of honey mushrooms not 100 yards from the house and picked comfrey and wild greens on the way back. Alan sauteed the shrooms and made comfrey fritters, plus we had a salad with violets and beauty berries, then chaga mushroom tea and kousa dogwood berries for dessert. Wow and YUM! Hooray for a great day...
For over 15 years, Alan Muskat has been persuading thousands to sample rather than trample the toadstools. Author of Wild Mushrooms: A Taste of Enchantment, this stand-up mycomedian has popped up on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, in Country Living magazine, and at The Biltmore Estate. Ask anyone who knows the mushroom man: when it comes to bringing out the fun in fungi, he's the champignon.
