Hyatt, Chef Chad: Mushrooms: Selection and Preparation For a Safe and Yummy Meal
Mushrooms-What they are, how to locate them and how to cook them is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious.
Our guest is Chef Chad Hyatt, who after leaving a ten year career as an engineer realized that cooking was this true passion, and became a classically trained chef. As part of this transformation he focused on mushrooms and sought out new techniques and traditional ethnic recipes from all over the world to apply to mushrooms.
Chad Hyatt, is the author of “The Mushroom Hunter’s Kitchen.” This book provides over 100 easy to follow detailed mushroom recipes, some of which we discuss in this interview. And for that reason you might want to be prepared to take notes of some of Hyatt’s comments.
The Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club will present a Mushroom Delight Dinner at the Caspar Community Center on Saturday, November 10, 2018. Chef Chad Hyatt will be in charge. For further information go to mendocinocoastmushroomclub.org.
When Chef Chad Hyatt and I visited by phone on October 28, 2018, from his home in Santa Clara County, California, we discussed mushrooms, what they are, how to cook them and how to safely forage wild mushrooms. We began our conversation with a focus on general details of cooking, and started when I asked him to expound on the opening sentence in his book, “Great food is all about the details.”
The book Chad Hyatt recommends is “Homage to Catalonia,” by George Orwell, based on Orwell’s experience in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
This program was recorded on October 28, 2018.
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