About an hour after I tweeted that I hoped new rains would bring out the mushrooms, Lew walked into the office with these porcinis. It inspired me to go on a running/mushroom safari that afternoon and I got several more pounds. They look so beautiful in the woods, the rich brown domes pushing up through pine needles. I gave some to friends and we had porcini pasta for dinner. We continue to eat more and more local and wild food. Great book for San Francisco Bay Area foragers is The Flavors of Home, by Margit Roos-Collins, A Heyday Press book unfortunately out-of-print.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
About an hour after I tweeted that I hoped new rains would bring out the mushrooms, Lew walked into the office with these porcinis. It inspired me to go on a running/mushroom safari that afternoon and I got several more pounds. They look so beautiful in the woods, the rich brown domes pushing up through pine needles. I gave some to friends and we had porcini pasta for dinner. We continue to eat more and more local and wild food. Great book for San Francisco Bay Area foragers is The Flavors of Home, by Margit Roos-Collins, A Heyday Press book unfortunately out-of-print.
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