Friday, March 4, 2011

Single Bite: Mendocino Mushrooms


Wild Mushroom Man, Mendocino, California

As I was looking out over the bay in the gorgeous town of Mendocino in Northern California, this man tried to sell me these giant mushrooms in the back of his pickup truck. He looked like he was dressed for a mushroom cloud, but he seemed like a fungi.

9 comments:

  1. Holy cow! I've talked to this man. He was picking morels in a forest burn near McCall, Idaho when I was there a couple of years ago. We talked to him about mushroom foraging .. I think he was a buyer? Did he say that he had supplied mushrooms to Prince Charles? I gathered he was quite proud of that. Small world!!! But GIGANTIC mushrooms!

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  2. How funny! The pic is a couple of years old, but I don't recall him saying that!

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  3. I think those are the biggest mushrooms I've ever seen!!!

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  4. Wild mushroom guys are, universally it seems, a trip and a half. The guy I buy my 'shrooms from at the local greenmarket is quite a character, and actually bears a slight a resemblance to your guy. Maybe they know each other.

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  5. I didn't buy any because i was traveling, but I know I missed out!

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  6. ok.....

    I'd buy mushrooms from him, good shrooms are an art form....

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  7. What a surrealistic vision! He looks like he lives in the forest and socializes only with foxes and squirels and owls, and his mushrooms look too big to be real.

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