Alaska's 'mushroom of immortality' 10 June 2021. Share Save. Alisha McDarris. ... Perhaps nowhere more prominently than in Alaska, where the culture of foraging for food and medicine alike is strong.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- -- Alaska has a history of booms -- fur, gold, oil. This summer could see another -- a 'shroom boom. Morel mushrooms, treasured for French cooking, often thrive on land in the ...

Mushroom 101: The best way to learn about mushrooms is to have someone show you the edible species; spending time studying field guides also helps. The perfect field guide for Alaska doesn't exist.

The selection of mushrooms available in grocery stores is often limited to white buttons and portobellos, since the species have long shelf lives and can withstand being shipped to Alaska. Oyster ...

Alaska is the great unknown on the mushroom circuit, having produced them on a commercial scale only once, after fires in 1990 resulted in what are often recalled as “carpets of morels” near ...

Today we’re hunting for mushrooms. Now you may have heard radio stories about mushroom foragers or mushroom experts, but Heidi Drygas is neither of those. Drygas writes the food blog Chena Girl ...

McArthur would know. He’s been hunting mushrooms in Homer for 25 years. This year, he published Alaska’s Mushrooms: A Wide-Ranging Guide, along with University of Fairbanks Professor Gary Laursen.

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