Mom’s Red-Cooked Chicken Wings with Wood Ear Mushrooms

When my mom—a physician who trained in Western medicine in China—got lung cancer, she returned to her home country, because there was no treatment available for her in the United States. There, she was able to get medication that extended her life by several years. It was my understanding that the protocols my mother received included medicinal mushrooms. That launched my interest in mycology. This recipe was my mother’s; the dish is called red-cooked chicken because the slow braising creat