The Secret Ingredient: Avery Stempel on Lion's Mane

When you're just ambling through the forest, and you have no desire and no clear idea, and then you find something that you weren't expecting, and you pull from that the idea for a meal...

In email, Avery punctuates every sentence with an exclamation mark, and in person he does that too. I get the sense that he could work up enthusiasm about almost anything, but the thing that has captured his attention and become his life’s work is: mushrooms. He and his partner Amy are behind Collar City Mushrooms, the mushroom farm / shop / community s…