A Funghi-Lover’s Guide to Travel

Andrea Gentl is an award-winning food and travel photographer and a dear friend who we’ve worked with for years. In collaboration with her husband and partner, Martin Hyers, her photos for basically every major lifestyle magazine and cookbook publisher are always soulfully transporting, capturing a fleeting sense of time through light—a gently fading pile of temple flowers in Kolkata, an artfully messy, glinting plate of sardines in Andros, Greece. But her latest project, Cooking With Mushrooms: A Fungi Lover’s Guide to the World’s Most Versatile, Flavorful, Health-Boosting Ingredients, is entirely her own. Incorporating both wild and cultivated mushrooms, her recipes—Adaptogenic Mushroom Honey, Morels on Fried Sourdough with Smashed Favas and Peas, Pork Chops with Maitake and Plums—and deep-dives into finding and using different varieties, demystify this strange and health-boosting ingredient. Many of the recipes were inspired by Andrea’s wide-ranging travels, so we asked her to share a few of the destinations and dishes that sparked her imagination. You can order the book here!