SATURDAY 11:30 – 1:15 -LOCATION: PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

In this workshop, LCMS and NATS presenters will share their best tips on harvesting, preserving, and cooking wild mushrooms with a focus on the edible wild mushrooms of the Oregon Coast and Oregon truffles. The discussion will include their knowledge of flavor profiles and the physical diversity of these mushrooms to decide how best to prepare them for the table. Following the presentation, participants will enjoy a sampling of “small bites” of several different mushroom dishes made with locally foraged mushrooms and prepared by the Lincoln County Mycological Society’s Kitchen Elves. Each dish is intended to illustrate how people of the world incorporate mushrooms in their cuisine as we celebrate a World of Mushrooms.

About the speakers:
Cathy Piazza, a native Oregonian, has lived in Lincoln County since 1988. She is a retired teacher who has been a member of LCMS for more than 5 years. She enjoys foraging for mushrooms and eating them as often as possible. This is all she thinks about during the mushroom season.

Anna Moore retired from UC Berkeley in 2005 and lives in Florence Oregon, where she forages
in the Siuslaw National Forest for mushrooms and hikes the local beaches for agates. She
became interested in mushrooms in the mid-1980s and has foraged for them in California for
years.

Sarah Colby has been hunting truffles with her dogs for 15 years. In addition to volunteering with the North American Truffling Society (NATS), she is part of a cooperative of hunters working to promote Oregon truffles and responsible truffle harvesting on private forestland. The cooperative harvests culinary truffles and sells them to restaurants and at the Portland Farmers Market, with a percentage of the profits going back to landowners. Sarah and her dogs also assist with NATS forays to investigate non-culinary truffles. During Oregon’s culinary truffle season, she offers private tours that include truffle dinners.