Maitake Mushroom Cooking Demo with Art

Event Description

Our local mushroom forager, Art, is eager to show our customers how to prepare his wild-foraged maitake mushrooms during this cooking demonstration.

According to Wikipedia, maitake is a “polypore mushroom that grows in clusters at the base of trees, particularly oaks. The mushroom is commonly known among English speakers as hen of the woods, hen-of-the-woods, ram’s head and sheep’s head. It is typically found in late summer to early autumn. In the United States’ supplement market, as well as in Asian grocery stores, the mushroom is known by its Japanese name maitake (舞茸, “dancing mushroom”). The fungus is native to China, the northeastern part of Japan and North America, and is prized in traditional Chinese and Japanese herbology as a medicinal mushroom.”