Chad Hyatt

Chef Chad Hyatt, the author of "The Mushroom Hunter's Kitchen", is a classically trained chef who has taught about mushrooms and mushroom cookery all over the United States. He spent a decade working in restaurants and private clubs around the San Francisco Bay Area, and for the last 5 years has worked as a freelance chef. He spends his free time hunting for and learning about mushrooms, along with seeking out new techniques and traditional recipes to apply to them. Chad has a particular interest in exploring underappreciated edible species. He has worked with various mushroom clubs to give private classes, demos, and to cook special dinners focused on wild mushrooms. He loves seeking out new techniques and traditional ethnic recipes from all over the world to apply to his local mushrooms, and has earned a reputation for coming up with surprising, delicious new ways to use them.