The town of British Columbia diving for Tofino becomes a paradise for mushroom suppliers every year. Author Kathryn Romeyn tags with Wolf in the Fog staff and alums to serve a moldy seafood dinner.

"Morning like this makes it sound magical," said bearded chef, wearing the hat of singer Nick Nutting, of the famous Canadian Wolf at Fog restaurant, as he drove his pickup at a dirt road near Tofino Lake in Kennedy. The thick fog turns the tops of tall coniferous trees into objects that look like a proverb, emitting a golden glow that sounds very mysterious: I would not be surprised if the legend flew out of the misty rays of light.

This mysterious fog spread

Over the small town of British Columbia in Tofino — Vancouver Island's favorite summer vacation spot, whale watching and the Burnaby Hiking Trails of the black bear, and the hot springs — every August. With good rainfall, favorable conditions are set for the mushroom season, which continues into the autumn.

Here, matsutake, chanterelles, porcupines, hedgehogs, angelic wings, coral mushrooms — many more species than one can easily comprehend — are planted in the dense jungle-guided pine forest and The Gaia Voice mossy mats along the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve (food is illegal. within the boundaries of the park). It is September when we visit, and they are still emerging, some in great size. We are going in a hot chase.

Eating food at Tofino

• It is the first time I am looking for
• Food, and it just happens to be
• Beautiful and extremely peaceful, quiet
• Ad even meditative; something
• Like a bath in the woods, perhaps

Elsewhere there are professional hippie stylists camping in vans on a diving board who are extremely thegaiavoice.com in their collection — making a living by selling groceries in restaurants, after all — but here we are, with Nutting's wife, Hailey Pasemko, on a cool trip. (Like the wolf's owner in Wolf in the Fog, his eye is on the berries to add to or make cocktails syrups.)

My harvesting journey

Sounds like the last Easter egg hunt, with plastic candy-filled orbs modified to get the desired gilt-colored fungus. Chef Nutting schools teach me an improved harvest method: Never pull mushrooms on the ground, but instead cut them cleanly on their bases with a pocket knife to grow faster.

The basket we collect will be cooked by him back at Wolf in the Fog, where the common situation denies the best food in the world, and when "shroom-shaped shots" and anything you take out of the sea, "Nutting said.

Fishing in Tofino

Shortly after dawn the next morning, we arrived at the home of Linda Sif II's horseman Joel Nikiforuk, a 12-passenger crew, on a Tofino 1st Class Fishing tour.

A former cook of Wolf in the Fog and a native of Tofino, Nikiforuk has released an attractive package "Catch & Cook" in Burnaby Hiking Trails with a restaurant this summer. Available for up to six people traveling together, this package can be designed from half a day to three full days of fishing with him (note that sleeping quarters are made independently), leading to a multicourse dinner of their catch while fishing. a standard restaurant.