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Slow Food Tour and Tasting at Gourmet Mushrooms

NOW in select Northern California Costco warehouses!

Costco Organic Mushrooms "Specialty Trio"

Chef April Bloomfield (of the Spotted Pig, et al) Knows Her Mushrooms

Top Chef's Top Choices for 2012

Mushrooms are a healthy addition to kid's menus.

Gourmet Mushrooms’ Trumpet Royale featured on the Dr. Oz Show!

Forest in a bottle. Gourmet Mushrooms' methods bring the forest indoors.

Specialty mushrooms. Growing methods. Forest in a bottle.

"Good Day Sacramento" TV visits Gourmet Mushrooms with Your Produce Man, Michael Marks

Mushrooms recipe gourmet "Your Produce Man"

Summer Menu Items

Our favorite mushroom stuffing recipe for Thanksgiving...a holiday tradition.

Mushroom Stuffing Turkey Thanksgiving.

Gourmet Mushrooms at the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival.

Epcot Food and Wine Festival invites Gourmet Mushrooms back to tell the story of specialty mushrooms to attendees. Interest in specialty mushrooms continues to grow.

Map to our farm - Directions

Map and Directions to Gourmet Mushrooms farm.

Two tours in September: Sunday the 18th and Thursday the 22nd, both at 2pm.

Cakebread Cellars' American Harvest Workshop celebrates its 25th year, and Gourmet Mushrooms will be there. Join us on August 19th!

Cakebread Cellars American Harvest Workshop Specialty Mushrooms

Are mushrooms "the other meat" or what? If you get The Cooking Channel, watch us on the Foodcrafters show this Monday...in their "Meat" episode!

Foodcrafters...Cooking Channel...Gourmet Mushrooms...Farm Tour

Sprout Restaurant cooks at James Beard Foundation, featuring their favorite mushroom farm!

The Chefs from Sprout in Chicago -- at James Beard Foundation with Gourmet Mushrooms' Maitake Frondosa, Nebrodini Bianco, and Velvet Pioppini

Summertime is Mushroom Time

Asian Mushroom Salad

Trumpet Royale Are Great on the Grill

Gourmet Mushrooms is proud to support the Ceres Project, a community-based program that provides food for clients in need, and experience for teenaged chefs.

ChooseMyPlate program emphasizes Fruits and Veggies in a healthy diet.

Mushrooms are on Target for Chefs in 2011!

Mushroom Farm Tours for Chefs and Mycologists

Growers, foragers and chefs enjoyed mushroom dishes and an inside peek at our farm.

Kitchen Table Talks....Gourmet Mushrooms' CEO David Law, joins a roundtable discussion with Ken Litchfield, Mushroom Cultivation Instructor at Merritt College

David Law, Merritt College, Mushroom Cultivation, Kitchen Table Talks, Fungi

Maitake with Prosciutto - Maitake Pastries

Great article on our farm in the Winter issue of Edible Marin and Wine Country magazine. Super photos by Rose Hodges and a well-written and well-researched article by food writer Kirsten Jones Neff

Not too late to order a Gift Basket for Xmas. CLICK HERE FOR $10 OFF COUPON CODE

Two-Bite Mushroom Pastry Appetizers are just the thing for holiday entertaining. A sure-fire crowd-pleaser from Chef Bob.

Two mushrooms, two flavors, Forest Nameko and Maitake Frondosa. A great appetizer.

Chef Celina Tio - long time Friend of Fungi -- is in the Final Four in Food Network's Iron Chef Competition.

Gourmet Mushrooms Inc.'s MYCOPIA brand now featured in Northern California Safeway stores.

Safeway Mushrooms MYCOPIA

MYCOPIA mushrooms now at Mollie Stone's and Lunardi's

Mycopia Mushrooms help Italian Chef win top prize. Congratulations to Chef Anna Fiasche of Ristorante Agostino.

The Italian Expo at Navy Pier Chicago awarded top chef honors to Chef Anna Fiasche of Ristorante Agostino for a dish featuring seafoods with mushrooms from Gourmet Mushrooms, Inc.

American Harvest Workshop Honors Specialty Producers

Is Maitake the New Shiitake?

Come tour the farm with The Cooking Channel. Go behind the scenes thanks to their new FoodCrafters show.

Turkey Stuffing and Mushroom Bread Pudding! YUM!

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Summertime Mushrooms? Sure!

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Mushrooms Featured at Aspen Food and Wine Classic

Turkey Stuffing and More

Winter Turkey Stuffing "Bread Pudding" Mushroom Mushrooms Mushrooms

Mushrooms on the Menu

Mushroom Omelets to Make Mother's Day Magical - recipes here!

Make Vitamin D at home with sunshine and mushrooms!

Fungi, like people, can manufacture Vitamin D in their cells when exposed to sunshine. Strange, but true.

Trumpet Royale featured at Best Pizza finalist! Rachel Ray's nationwide pizza taste off has declared Pizzeria Bianco in Phoeniz one of four finalists. Is it our mushrooms that gave him the edge?

Produce Industry Study Highlights Growth of Specialty Mushrooms

Gourmet Mushrooms, Founded by Malcolm lark and David Law in 1977 was a pioneer in the Specialty Mushroom field. It is because of companies like ours that America's tastes are changing. Purchases of specialty mushrooms climbed four percentage points from Fresh Trends 2008. As was the case last year, the likelihood of purchase increased according to income. In fact, shoppers in the highest income bracket were more than twice as likely to buy specialty mushrooms as those earning less than $50,000.

FOOD NETWORK Chef Anne Burrell Features Trumpet Royale mushrooms in inventive recipe for Apple and Celery Root Slaw!

Mushroom Stuffing Recipes for Your Turkey

Chef Bob Engel Shares two recipes for great Turkey Stuffing

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Chef Liaison Bob Engel shares recipes and mushroom lore.

MYCOPIA Chef's Sampler gets 91 Points in review by industry expert Phil Lempert of SupermarketGuru.com

Mycopia's Chef's Sampler is a HIT according to Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert. He gave our mushrooms 91 points, including 29 out of 30 possible points for Flavor. What have we been telling you?

Gourmet Mushrooms featured at 2009 StarChefs.com New York Rising Chefs Awards

Gourmet Mushrooms, Inc. has been chosen to supply mushrooms for Chef George Mendes dishes at the 2009 New York StarChefs,com™ Rising Star Awards.

Chef Bob Presents Gourmet Mushrooms at the 2009 EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival

Gourmet Mushrooms' Chef Liaison, Bob Engel, has been invited back for the third year to the EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival in Orlando, Florida.

We are proud to say that Julia Child was a fan! Click here for a picture of Julia with our mushrooms.

In 1992 Julia Child visited Gourmet Mushrooms, Inc. It was her first introduction to the cultivation of specialty mushrooms and she was wowed. She told David Law, "I'll look at mushrooms with different eyes in the future."

Mushroom Farm Tour video by Culinary Institute Student Chef on You Tube! (Note: Begins at Sonomc-Cutrer Winery.)

Chef Liaison and Marketing Director Bob Engel gives a tour to Senior Student Chefs from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY.

Mushrooms Can Help Fight Flu

Because mushrooms support the immune system, they are the perfect first line of defense against flus and other viruses including the swine flu.

Name That Mushroom!

We love the many names for mushrooms, deriving as they do from different cultures and local lore, but we hate to see confusion and out-and-out misnaming. Take a look at this "Definitive" guide for all of the mushrooms we grow, and some other favorites. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but why call it a pansy?

A Dozen Different Mushrooms in your Kitchen!

It's not location, location, location - it's variety, variety, variety. Mushrooms are gaining in popularity because they offer a wide range of colors and textures while sharing a common ability to enhance the flavor of any dish. This savory, flavor-boosting quality is referred to by the Japanese term umami, which translates roughly as “deliciousness.”

Mushrooms Help Dieters by Increasing Satiety, Not Calories

Research at Johns Hopkins Medical Center on obesity suggests that mushrooms are a good food to include in any weight loss diet.

Mushroom Gift Basket as seen in SAVEUR magazine. Free overnight shipping.

Your gourmet friends have already seen the cheese and cracker basket. This year send them something REALLY special. Six varieties of Organic Specialty mushrooms in a wicker gift basket.

Saveur Magazine Article on Our Mushroom Gift Basket

Mushroom Cooking Class at COPIA, Oct. 26th, sign up now,

Oct. 26. 3:15 PM. Mushroom Cookery with Chef Bob Engel at COPIA. Mushrooms for Holiday Entertaining, and a slide show tour of our fascinating farm. Your mushroom questions answered by a pro.

Mushroom Nutrition from the Mushroom Council

Many people still think that mushrooms are tasty, but not high in nutrients. Maybe it's the pale color. But mushrooms are high in antioxidants like selenium and a good source of B Vitamin.

Organic Mushrooms Attract Produce Industry's Notice

A full page article in the September 2008 Vegetable Growers News features an interview with Gourmet Mushrooms' Chef Liaison Bob Engel discussing the expansion of the company's organic line.

BACK TO SCHOOL time - Mushroom Science Kits

Fall is here and science teachers are using our mushroom growing kits to tell the story of the Fungal Kingdom's contribution to our planet's ecology. Fascinating fungal fun.

Nebrodini Bianco Coming Soon

Imagine a mushroom with the texture of the most tender abalone you've ever tasted. A delicious new mushroom, available in limited quantities beginning Fall 2008.

Gourmet Mushrooms Extends Organic Line

Gourmet Mushrooms, Inc. of Sebastopol, California, growers of the MYCOPIA® brand of organic specialty mushrooms, has concluded agreements with two other Pacific Coast growers and now offers an all-organic program to its customers. Gourmet Mushrooms' five varieties of specialty mushrooms are now complemented by organically grown shiitake and maitake.

Sunset Magazine Article--Mushrooms Bloom

Nutraceuticals

Chef Liaison Bob Engel presents an all-mushroom dinner menu at VIVA Cultural Center and Cooking School

Gourmet Magazine is gone, but continues as the Gourmet Live Blog, and they have chosen our Mushroom Gift Basket as one of the Five Best Farm Fresh items in the country! Thank you, Gourmet Live!

New Branch of the Fungal Kingdom. These may never enter a kitchen, but the discovery of a new evolutionary branch of fungi may one day find its way into our health food supplements.

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Gourmet Mushrooms has a booth this week...Oct 21 to 23...at SupplySide West, the world's largest event for healthy and innovative ingredients. Dietary supplement and cosmeceutical manufacturers.

CEO David Law interviewed by Nutraceutical World Magazine. "We Mushroom Your Health"

Gourmet Mushrooms CEO David Law says, "We are seeing a more informed population, especially younger generations, paying credence to the health benefits of fungal products."