The Mushroom Hunters

A new book called "The Mushroom Hunters" might well interest the fungus-fanciers around here, although it's about wild mushrooms rather than the cultivated kind. The author, Langdon Cook, travels all over the country with the colorful, peculiar characters who stalk expensive exotics like morels and chanterelles in the wilderness -- and then have to harvest them and get them to market as quickly as possible. The reviewer in the "Wall Street Journal" called the book "a rollicking narrative." Looks like a great read.