Non-Member Pricing for 2026 President’s Dinner by Chef Lindsay Porter
March 21 @ 6:01 pm - 10:00 pm
| $90.00Chef Lindsay Porter
This year the President’s Dinner will be held on Saturday March 21, 2026 at the Devon Community Centre in Devon, Alberta.
Location is:
Devon Community Centre
20 Haven Avenue
Devon, Alberta T9G 2B9 Canada
President’s Dinner – Celebrity Chef
Not often does one have a Celebrity Chef preparing their meal…
| Program | Network | Outcome / Role |
|---|---|---|
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(Season 10) |
Food Network Canada | Competitor (First Edmonton-based chef to compete) |
| Food Network (US) | Winner (Noodle Games episode, 2017/2018); appeared twice | |
| Food Network Canada | Winner (2019) | |
| Food Network | Competitor (2020) | |
| Food Network Canada | Sous Chef for Shane Chartrand | |
| AMI-tv | Guest Chef (Featured in Episode 7) |
Menu
Cash Bar: Mushroom Infused Cocktails – Wine – Highballs
Mushroom Menu 2026
Course 1 – The Garden
Mini soil garden with almond, carrot, celery, beet, greens, beech and trumpet mushroom, crispy rice and a creamy porcini dressing
Course 2 – Grilled Truffled Portabellas
With beef tartare, rosemary honey, capers and parmesan
Course 3 – Asian Mushroom Expression
Grilled lions mane soup
shiitake and wood ear XO chilli topped pork and shrimp shu mai dumplings with a mushroom dusted crispy onion
Course 4 – Lamb Rack and Sausage
Chanterelle herb duxelle, morel rhubarb demiglace, fingerling potato, smoked parsnip puree with lovage oil
Course 5 – Sticky Toffee Cake
With a cordyceps-infused toffee sauce and candied peanuts
President’s Dinner Presentation
You know the name. But do you REALLY know the mushroom?
Overview: Fungi are intriguing and truly amaze us. And, as a result of convergent evolution, many may puzzle or confuse, as well as fascinate us upon learning their evolutionary histories. This lecture will discuss the evolution of life on our planet…and in particular the evolution of fungi. (They do things no other organisms do.) Completely unfamiliar with how evolution has shaped life on earth? This lecture is for you. Think you already know everything there is to know on the topic? It’s likely you will find out a few surprises.
A popular evangelizer on all things fungal, Britt has given more than 250 invited lectures to academic and popular audiences across North America and beyond. He has been featured on the BBC World Service’s Newshour, NPR’s All Things Considered, PBS’s NOVA and Wisconsin Foodie television programs; and interviewed or quoted in Discover magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Vox, Vogue, Forbes, Saveur, Eating Well, Hobby Farm, Women’s World, and other magazines and newspapers.
Britt has collected fungi and lectured throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Annually, he leads mycological expeditions throughout the world. One such expedition, was the subject of an award-winning documentary film “Look Down Not Up” (2022), produced by documentary filmmakers Alok Siddhi Tuladhar and Dusty Shiva Panthi of Kathmandu, Nepal.
Britt has authored several books, including The Lives of Fungi (2022; Princeton University Press) which is sold all over the world and translated into Italian, German, Spanish, and Chinese languages. Additional titles include Fungi of the World: A Guide to All Phyla (2026; Princeton University Press), Atlas of Fungi (2026; Princeton University Press), Fungi Decoded (2025; Penguin Random House), The Little Book of Fungi (2024; Princeton University Press), The Beginner’s Guide to Mushrooms (2021; Quarry Books), Amanitas of North America (2020; The Fungi Press), and
Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States (2012; The Ohio State University Press).
Coming in 2027: Fungi: A Practical Field Guide (Quarry Books).
Britt has served as Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2014 and was awarded the “Dr. Emanuele Salzman Award” for service to the Telluride Mushroom Festival in 2024. In 2021 he was awarded the Gary Lincoff Award “For Contributions to Amateur Mycology,” by the North American Mycological Association—NAMA’s most prestigious honor for American mycologists.