Fungophile
Please
consider including the following in your club’s newsletter:
25th Anniversary of the Telluride Mushroom
Festival:
Forays,
Workshops, Chefs’ Cook-off, and Parade
Telluride
The 25th
annual Telluride Mushroom Festival—designed for people interested in
edible, psychoactive, and poisonous mushrooms—will be held in Telluride,
Colorado, Aug. 18-21.
The festival includes
mushroom lectures, forays, hands-on identification and cultivation workshops,
mushroom poetry, and a mushroom parade—which runs down the main street of
Telluride and features festival participants dressed as mushrooms, spores, and
other elements of the mycological world.
The Festival’s
third annual “Mushroom Cook-off Feast” features chefs from
Telluride’s top restaurants, who will prepare mushroom dishes to be
judged by festival faculty. The winning chef will receive a chef’s hat
adorned with mushrooms, and festivalgoers will dine on the mushroom dishes.
Experienced guides will
lead daily fungus forays in the forests surrounding Telluride, generally
productive of a wide variety of wild mushrooms, particularly edible species,
like chanterelles and porcini.
Nationally recognized
authorities on mushrooms will present lectures and workshops:
Ø Gary Lincoff,
past President of the North American Mycological Association, on
“Mushroom Identification;”
Ø Paul Stamets,
President of Fungi Perfecti (www.fungi.com), on "Medicinal
Mushrooms;”
Ø Manuel Torres, author,
on “The Use of Visionary Mushrooms and Plants in the
Ø Kathleen Harrison, Director,
Botanical Dimensions, on “Mushroom Traditions;”
Ø Dr. Emanuel Salzman,
Co-editor of Mushroom Poisoning,
on "Mushroom Poisoning."
Complete information
about the Festival program, registration, lodging, and travel is available on
the Festival’s web site: www.shroomfestival.com.
Or write, Fungophile, Attn. Mushroom Festival, Box 480503, Denver, CO,
80248-0503. Call 303-296-9359.
Contact:
303-296-9359 or
303-292-1524
Feb. 8, 2005