Foraging for mushrooms can be scary, so Food & Wine sent literary Brat Pack legend Tama Janowitz to comb the forest floors of McCall, Idaho, with a mushroom foraging expert. She learned how to forage ...

In the U.S., there’s a cultural fear of fungi, known as mycophobia, rooted in historical factors. Many people were skeptical or even fearful of mushrooms, and retailers didn’t know how to ...