This morning, the Mushroom Man at Union Square Greenmarket explained the basket next to the Chicken of the Woods mushrooms (below—I like my mushrooms to taste like mushrooms),

and the mystery mushrooms looked potent and ancient.

Buying elderberries from him (what should I make? a sauce for game or an infusion for cocktails?), I stopped [...]

In which I talk about a food product—acknowledging that Michael Pollan says plants, not products—that I hate to love (even more than this terrible screenshot below):

What do you think about goji berries?
Do you share my unlocal superfood guilt? My love for the Gummi Bears? (Guess what color gummi berries have to be in [...]