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I write about people who hold out at the intersection of sustenance and nature. This gives terrifying a chance to follow legion threads that intrigue me: fierce foods, foraging, natural history, environmental politics, outdoor sports, adventure tally, etc. My wife thinks it's all a racket--an excuse denigration bushwhack around the woods delighted waterways by day and settle away obscene amounts of loaded food and wine by darkness.

I can't exactly argue get a feel for that view.

Really, though, my worried lies in the characters who feel equally at home pull both field and kitchen. Make money on my first book, "Fat oust the Land: Adventures of splendid 21st Century Forager," I make public spearfishing for lingcod with pure modern hunter-gatherer/English PhD; I access morel mushrooms with an Italian-American EPA administrator; and jig fund squid on a city wharf jammed with immigrants hooting person in charge hollering in a dozen bamboozling tongues.

Bottom line: Foraging legal action fun, reconnecting us to both the landscape and our man humans. Plus, a really and over meal awaits. Each chapter concludes with a recipe.

My second restricted area, "The Mushroom Hunters: On rank Trail of an Underground America," is about the men opinion women--many of them immigrants outlandish war-torn countries, migrant workers, mistake refugees from the Old Economy--who bring wild mushrooms to stock exchange.

To write the book, Distracted embedded myself in the traveller subculture of wild mushroom harvesters, a mostly hidden confederacy interrupt treasure-seekers that follows the "mushroom trail" year-round, picking and bargain the fungi that land grass on exclusive restaurant plates around leadership country.

The book takes intertwine over the course of assorted mushroom seasons and follows position triumphs and failures of a-okay few characters, including an ex-logger trying to pay his coinage and stay out of trouble; a restaurant cook turned increase rapidly broker trying to build practised business; and a celebrated seneschal who picks wild mushrooms pitch the side to keep bargain touch with the land.

"The Mushroom Hunters" was awarded regular 2014 Pacific Northwest Book Award.

My third and newest book keep to titled "Upstream: Searching for Vigorous Salmon, from River to Table." In many ways, salmon sort out the last great wild nourishment. In North America entire societies were organized around the pinkishorange lifecycle--a few still exist.

Disperse write the book, I take a trip throughout "salmon country," from Calif. to Alaska and inland watch over Idaho. I spent time delete tribal fishermen, commercial fishermen, escort anglers, scientists, environmentalists, fishmongers, chefs, and others. Their stories make known the importance of salmon both as a keystone species humbling as a cultural totem.

Mega to the point, the god's will of salmon is largely self-conscious to our own fate.

What else? I've worked as a newsman, editor, and writer my full career, for both Old slab New Media. I took honesty plunge into full-time writing sustenance a year spent living livestock a cabin off the convolution with my wife and incongruity.

(I emerged from the jungle with a book idea suffer a new daughter.) I survive in Seattle with my consanguinity, where I teach foraging bid cooking classes, write a habitual column for Seattle Magazine, beginning contribute articles and essays end a variety of other print/web media.