Wild Mushroom Exhibition

My wife and I happened to stumble across an announcement for a wild mushroom exhibition promising lots of wild mushrooms and cooking demonstrations this weekend.  We decided that we wanted to check this out, see what the cooking demos were about, and hopefully buy some good, local and wild mushrooms to take home and make into a whole feast of different dishes.

Instead, we found a very small room with lots of natural displays of mostly inedible mushrooms, a booth or two for "arts and crafts in mushroom style", and a cooking demonstration that really only served to talk about mushrooms you'd be hard-pressed to find, presented in fairly routine ways.  It was a mushroom lover's dream, if by love you mean that you like to identify them for the sake of it and compare gills between species.  Not that there's anything wrong with that, it just wasn't what we were looking for.

We really wanted to find some good, local mushroom purveyors to get information on what's in season and get something more than just chanterelles and shiitakes.  We're going to visit the West Seattle farmers' market tomorrow and see if we can do just that.

In the future, we'll be looking for mushroom "festivals" and not "exhibitions".