(Tues Nov 10) Do This Today in Mendocino

(Funghi) Culture
Ford House Museum - Nov 6 thru 15Main Street in Mendocino Village, the Ford House Museum hosts a Mushroom Exhibit thought the month of November.

For more information call 707.937.5397 or visit Mendocino Parks


Food & Wine
Albion River Inn’s Mushroom Cooking Class – Nov 10Experience the creative culinary style of Executive Chef Stephen Smith as he demonstrates delectable wild & cultivated mushroom recipes for this 5-course, mushroom-inspired cooking class.

Local wild mushroom expert Don Kowalski will join Chef Smith to give a demonstration on how to identify our coast's wild mushroom harvest. Each participant receives a full set of class recipes with step-by- step instructions.

$80 per person, limited to 20 people. 11:30am - 3:30pm.
Call 800-479-7944 or visit Albion River Inn to make a reservation.

Outdoors
Private Mushroom Hunting Tours
Ryane Snow, Ph.D., amateur botanist, teacher, surfer, diver, practitioner of Chinese medicine, pharmacy technician, has been studying and collecting mushrooms for over thirty years. Ryane’s work as a synthetic chemist of natural products at Stanford in 1970 led to his interest in the medicinal properties of fungi. He joined the Mycological Society of San Francisco, where he served on the Taxonomy and Toxicology Committees. Since the inception of the annual Mendocino County Wine and Mushroom festival, Ryane has led numerous mushroom identification walks and Forest to Table workshops.

For the past three years, he has served as a staff member for David Arora’s (author of Mushrooms Demystify) highly acclaimed Thanksgiving weekend mushroom workshops. Ryane enjoys teaching interested people of all ages about the often-hidden and fascinating world of mushrooms, their importance to the ecology of the forest, their medicinal properties, and the wonderful culinary opportunities they provide.

• Typical group tours includes a brief, hands-on introduction to local fungi, followed by a 2 to 3 hour walk in the woods: $20 per person; children under 16 free.

• Private foraging tours are also available, and can be customized to your liking: $50 per hour for groups up to 4 people. Contact: rsnow@mcn.org or telephone (707)937-0461.