Forager's report: You'd think it was too dry out, but just go up in elevation into the mountains where it's cooler and you'll find it's been raining enough for a really nice flush of mushrooms to come up. My uncle in the Okanagan has been sending me pictures of edible sheeps polypore (photo below), a very under-utilized tasty mushroom and gorgeous ripe black huckleberries too, a forager's feast to be sure. Porcini (an expensive meaty wild mushroom, famous in Italy) can pop up in summer if conditions are right, so if I were near some spruce or western hemlock forests, higher in elevation with a little bit of rain happening, that's where I would look.  Happy foraging!

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Mushroom Hunting Class 2025

This foraging foray will focus on mushroom how to safely identify wild edible mushrooms, like porcini, chanterelle, lobster mushrooms, wild oysters and so many more. Our ever-popular “Wild Edible Identification Trips” are easy forest walking trips with an expert myco-guide and they book up fast.  Locations vary depending on the date in the Greater Vancouver area generally.

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Carnivoria! 

A pop-up dinner in the garden for meat lovers by Chef Brent Thornton (formerly at St.Lawrence, Good Thief and now Chef de cuisine at Elem restaurant)

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Charred tartare, beef hearts, XO sauce, radicchio 

Cold smoked steelhead, sauce Colbert, pickled onion

Tender lamb belly skewers, fire roasted sungold tomato salsa, anchovy

Smoked pork cheek, guajillo glaze, pattypan squash, Okanagan peach

BC summer berries, Parmesan ice cream, brown butter 

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You're invited to sit under the magnolia tree for a barbecue at Swallow Tail Supper Club in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, secret address given upon booking.

ONLY Sunday, Aug 31st at 6:30pm