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2025 Events & Classes
*Locations vary regularly between Arizona and Southern California.
Five Course Wild Mushroom Pop-Up Dinner
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
The Strawberry Lodge
8039 Az Highway 87, Strawberry, AZ
An intimate prix fixe five-course dining experience celebrating wild mushrooms and locally inspired ingredients from Arizona’s mountain landscapes. Wine tasting by local winery Caduceus Cellars (owned by Maynard James Keenan). Taking place in the candle lit dining room at the highly acclaimed Strawberry Lodge Ristorante Italiano.
Reservations: thestrawberrylodge.com
Wild Mushroom Tasting Experience
December 18, 2025
6:00-7:30pm
Rainbow Bliss Botanicals
1628 E Southern Ave, Tempe, AZ
Flavor meets function in the culinary world of fungi. In this 1.5 hour multi-sensory class, we will explore culinary and medicinal mushrooms through a spectrum of special preparations and preservation methods. You’ll get to learn about and taste rare and prized mushrooms from forests near and far.
You’ll learn expert techniques of cooking and extracting maximum umami flavors and medicinal compounds from mushrooms like turkey tail, maitake, lion’s mane, black trumpet, oyster, and many more. Join us for an immersive journey of taste and healing. Take home recipes from everything we sample!
$39 Class size limited.
Would you like to host me for an interactive, engaging lecture, class or workshop for your program, group or event?
I offer a variety of topics in the health, wellness, mushroom and foraging communities to fit your event. Let’s Chat
Jess Starwood 