BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID://PSMS//517819 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260525T030453 VTIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles DTSTART:20260513T023000Z DTEND:20260513T043000Z UID:517819 SUMMARY:May General Meeting with Langdon Cook LOCATION:Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st Street (Mary Gates Drive), Seattle, WA, 98105 DESCRIPTION:May General Meeting with Langdon Cook\n\n05/12/26 07:30 PM PST\n - 05/12/26 09:30 PM PST\Description:\nWild Mushroom Puzzles: Solving the Riddles of Where, When, and How to Look for Edible Spring Fungi\Details:\nWild Mushroom Puzzles: Solving the Riddles of Where, When, and How to Look for Edible Spring Fungi\nThis meeting is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7pm (Come and socialize!), meeting starts at 7:30pm.\n\nSpring is here, and you want to taste it!  If you are new to spring foraging or are ready to add new locations or a longer season to your existing experience, this month’s program is for you.  Author Langdon Cook will present a “patch to plate” slideshow with tips for planning a successful foray and cooking your catch. Questions and answers and book signing to follow.\n\nLangdon Cook is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors.  His books include Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table, a finalist for the Washington State Book Award; The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America, winner of the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award; and Fat of the Land; Adventures of a 21st Century Forager,  which the Seattle Times called “lyrical, practical, and quixotic.” Cook’s work has been nominated for two James Beard Awards, a Society for Environmental Journalists award, and a Pushcart Prize.  He has been profiled in Bon Appetite, WSJ magazine, Whole Living, and Salon.com.  His writing appears in numerous magazines, newspapers, and online journals, including National Geographic Travel, Outside, Eating Well, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and Seattle Magazine, where he was a regular columnist for a decade.  Cook lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.\n \n\nMeeting Format: The meeting is open to the public and will be offered both in person and via Zoom for those unable to attend physically. Langdon Cook has graciously agreed to allow PSMS to record this presentation for later viewing on the PSMS website (members only)\n\nFor those who cannot attend the in person meeting, The Puget Sound Mycological Society invites you to join the scheduled Zoom meeting.\nZoom Access: https://zoom.us/j/98118666095?pwd=iZyTjx9Inxk9xITftJdbo8Qoj3t5eB.1\nTopic: Puget Sound Mycological Society's May Membership Meeting\nTime: May 12, 2026 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nMeeting ID: 981 1866 6095\nPasscode: 967532\n\nOne tap mobile\n\n+12532158782,,98118666095#,,,,*967532# US (Tacoma)\n\n+12532050468,,98118666095#,,,,*967532# US\n\Location:\nCenter for Urban Horticulture\n3501 NE 41st Street (Mary Gates Drive)\nSeattle, WA 98105 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:May General Meeting with Langdon Cook

05/12/26 07:30 PM PST - 05/12/26 09:30 PM PST
Description:
Wild Mushroom Puzzles: Solving the Riddles of Where, When, and How to Look for Edible Spring Fungi
Details:
Wild Mushroom Puzzles: Solving the Riddles of Where, When, and How to Look for Edible Spring Fungi
This meeting is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7pm (Come and socialize!), meeting starts at 7:30pm.

Spring is here, and you want to taste it!  If you are new to spring foraging or are ready to add new locations or a longer season to your existing experience, this month’s program is for you.  Author Langdon Cook will present a “patch to plate” slideshow with tips for planning a successful foray and cooking your catch. Questions and answers and book signing to follow.

Langdon Cook is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors.  His books include Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table, a finalist for the Washington State Book Award; The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America, winner of the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award; and Fat of the Land; Adventures of a 21st Century Forager,  which the Seattle Times called “lyrical, practical, and quixotic.” Cook’s work has been nominated for two James Beard Awards, a Society for Environmental Journalists award, and a Pushcart Prize.  He has been profiled in Bon Appetite, WSJ magazine, Whole Living, and Salon.com.  His writing appears in numerous magazines, newspapers, and online journals, including National Geographic Travel, Outside, Eating Well, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and Seattle Magazine, where he was a regular columnist for a decade.  Cook lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.
 

Meeting Format: The meeting is open to the public and will be offered both in person and via Zoom for those unable to attend physically. Langdon Cook has graciously agreed to allow PSMS to record this presentation for later viewing on the PSMS website (members only)

For those who cannot attend the in person meeting, The Puget Sound Mycological Society invites you to join the scheduled Zoom meeting.
Zoom Access: https://zoom.us/j/98118666095?pwd=iZyTjx9Inxk9xITftJdbo8Qoj3t5eB.1
Topic: Puget Sound Mycological Society's May Membership Meeting
Time: May 12, 2026 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 981 1866 6095
Passcode: 967532

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Center for Urban Horticulture
3501 NE 41st Street (Mary Gates Drive)
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