Fungus Fair 2014 - Program Schedule

The Fungus Fair has two main speaking venues: the main room (Room 3) is where you'll find our headliners and cooking demonstrations. Entry passes to the main room will be available outside the room 30 minutes prior to the scheduled presentation. A smaller lecture room (Room 1) down the hall has informative and educational talks about mushrooms, given by local, knowledgeable mycologists. The schedule for these rooms is listed below.

We will be conducting a class specifically designed for students to be held from 10:30-11:30 both Saturday and Sunday mornings in the Teen Center at Louden Nelson. Follow this link to learn more... click on the "2013 Fungus Fair Educational Information" tab.

Visit the Kid's Room for mushroom activities such as clay sculpture, water colors, face painting, and making mushroom dyed fabric.

You can also ask questions about mushrooms you have brought to the fair in the main auditorium at the mushroom identification table, staffed by our best identification experts.

 

Friday, January 10, 2014

 

Room 3

3:30 - 4:30 Debbie Viess (aka Amanitarita)
Bay Area Biologist, Naturalist, Writer, Artist and Co-Founder of the Bay Area Mycological Society
Amanitas: From Deadly to Delicious
4:30 - 5:30 Chef Zachary Mazi
Bauman College of Holistic Nutrition, Chef-Proprietor of Food is Medicine
Cooking Demonstration
Forest "Farmacy" to Kitchen: The Art of Haute Healing
7:00 - 10:00 After Hours Mushroom Dinner: Catered by Chef Eric Carter, Director of Pino Alto Restaurant of the Cabrillo College Culinary Arts Department. Courses will be served with wine pairings from Ridge Vineyard presented by Eric Baugher, Vice President of Winemaking, Monte Bello of Ridge Vineyard. Music by Fernando Lezama and his Latin Jass Band Sound Advance Reservations
Reservation and ticketing info coming soon!

 

Room 1

3:30 - 4:30 Henry Young Mushroom Toxicology
4:45 - 6:45 Christopher Hobbs
Herbalist, botanist, acupuncturist and author  

 

Cooking With and Use of Mushrooms for Health and Healing

 

Saturday, January 11, 2014

 

Room 3

11:00 - 12:30 Professor Tom Volk
Professor of Biology, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse

Exposé':
The Secret Sex Lives of Fungi 

1:00 - 2:30 David Arora
Author, Mushrooms Demystified
Wheel of Fungi
3:00 - 4:00 Chef Bob Wynn
All-around maker of great food
Jeff Emery 
Winemaker, Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard and Quinta Cruz
Cooking Demonstration with Wine Pairings
6:00 - 10:00 Celebration of 40 Years of FUNgus 
Chef Bob WynnWinemaker Jeff Emery of Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard and Quinta Cruz, the Penny Ice Creamery and music by The Soft White Sixties.
Advance Reservations
Reservation and ticketing info coming soon!

 

Room 1

10:30 - 11:30 Christian Schwarz Mycology for the Citizen Scientist
1:30 - 2:30 Chef Zachary Mazi
Bauman College of Holistic Nutrition, Chef-Proprietor of Food is Medicine
Kitchen Farmacy: Common Edible Mushrooms as Medicines
3:30 - 4:30 Henry Young

Mushroom Toxicology

Sunday, January 12, 2014

 

Room 3

11:00 - 12:30 Professor Tom Volk
Professor of Biology, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse

Exposé:
The Secret Sex Lives of Fungi 

1:00 - 2:30 David Arora
Author, Mushrooms Demystified
Wheel of Fungi
3:00 - 4:00 Chef Jozseph Schultz 
Chef/Proprietor, India Joze Restaurant in Santa Cruz
Cooking demonstration

 

Room 1

10:30 - 11:30 Debbie Viess (aka Amanitarita)
Bay Area Biologist, Naturalist, Writer, Artist and Co-Founder of the Bay Area Mycological Society
Zen and the Art of Mushroom Hunting
12:00 - 1:00 David Rust Introduction to Wild and Edible Mushrooms
1:30 - 4:00 Christopher Hobbs
Herbalist, botanist, acupuncturist and author  
 

Cancer, Viral Syndromes and Other Immune Disorders: Prevention and Treatment with Medicinal Mushrooms.

 

 

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