Every book is ultimately the product of a community, of editors and copy editors, art directors and photographers, stylists and cooks, experts and enthusiasts. So here, I’d like to thank the community within this community cookbook.
First, thanks to Louie Schwartzberg, who is the heart of the project. It was Louie’s notion that mycelium is a metaphor for collective action, a notion that gave rise to the idea of a community cookbook. Thanks to Raoul Goff from Insight Editions. He understood this idea perfectly from the very beginning and was constantly relaxed and supportive. Many thanks to Vanessa Lopez, who edited this book with speed and grace, and Chrissy Kwasnik and Leah Lauer, who designed it beautifully. Thanks to Anna Wostenberg and Jennifer Sims for their editorial support, and Jennifer Bentham, Rachel Anderson, and Mark Nichol for keeping our text clean and consistent, and to our press agent, James Faccinto, who is uniquely creative and open to trying radical ideas. They were all great, easygoing collaborators. I don’t know; maybe it’s a California thing.
