About the Author

Langdon Cook is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors. His books include Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table, a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America, winner of the 2014 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager, which The Seattle Times called "lyrical, practical and quixotic." Cook's work has been nominated for two James Beard Awards (2016 and 2019), a Society for Environmental Journalists award, and a Pushcart Prize. He has been profiled in Bon Appetit, WSJ magazine, Whole Living, and Salon.com, and his writing appears in numerous magazines, newspapers, and online journals, including National Geographic Travel, Outside, Eating Well, Gray's Sporting Journal, and Seattle Magazine, where he was a regular columnist for a decade. On-screen credits include the PBS TV series "Food Forward," the Travel Channel, and "The Perennial Plate." Cook lives in Seattle.

Reviews

Beautifully written-- "Seattle Weekly"

Check out Langdon Cook's blog, Fat of the Land.-- "The Wall Street Journal"

Cook is a born storyteller who celebrates the food of the land and sea with poetic prose tinged with humor. This book is not only a field guide that depicts the pleasures of foraging, but one that shares the hunt, the recipes, and the colorful stories behind the author's foraging.-- "Washington Reads, Washington State Library"

The author details his chronological development as a foodie -- both generally and specifically as a forager -- in a way that rouses the reader to head for the hills in search of our dinner, or at least, to consider doing so. Through humorous anecdotes of his coutrship and marriage, this book is a refreshing and entertaining read about the author's "food awakening" as a complete lifestyle change-- "WeAreNeverFull.com"

The intrepid (Langdon) Cook makes it his mission to root out and harvest all manner of edibles, from razor clams to weeds.-- "Bon Appetit"