Alan Muskat,&amp;nbsp;philosoforager, stand-up&amp;nbsp;mycomedian, and epicure of the obscure, has been taking people &amp;ldquo;out to eat&amp;rdquo; for twenty years. He founded the&amp;nbsp;first &amp;quot;forage-to-table&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;offering in the U.S. and the&amp;nbsp;first public education program&amp;nbsp;for wild foods in the world.&amp;nbsp;Author of&amp;nbsp;Wild Mushrooms: A Taste of Enchantment, Muskat has popped up on The Travel Channel&amp;#39;s&amp;nbsp;Bizarre Foods,&amp;nbsp;The History Channel,&amp;nbsp;PBS,&amp;nbsp;CBS, and inSouthern Living,&amp;nbsp;Fodors,&amp;nbsp;Travel+Leisure,&amp;nbsp;Conde Naste Traveler,&amp;nbsp;The New Yorker,The Washington Post,&amp;nbsp;The Chicago Tribune,&amp;nbsp;Country Living,&amp;nbsp;Forbes.com, andInc.com. He&amp;#39;s even preached on&amp;nbsp;Voice of America, ardently urging the masses to sample rather than trample the toadstools. &amp;ldquo;What do you have to lose?&amp;rdquo; asks Muskat. &amp;ldquo;Whatever doesn&amp;#39;t kill you only makes you famous.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;Alan really knows how to pick &amp;rsquo;em. For close to two decades, he sold hundreds of pounds of wild foods a year to over fifty restaurants and hotels, including&amp;nbsp;The Biltmore Estate, Lantern, and The Grove Park Inn. On the thirteen anniversary of 9/11, he spoke at The United States Botanical Garden (next to the Capitol) on home/land security. The creator of&amp;nbsp;GMO OMG&amp;nbsp;is filming his next documentary about his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Muskat has taught&amp;nbsp;self-catering&amp;nbsp;to The James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour; The 2014 James Beard Best Chef of the Southeast;&amp;nbsp;Dr. Andrew Weil&amp;nbsp;(twice on the cover of&amp;nbsp;Time); Christie Hefner, former CEO of Playboy; VPs of Shell, Amoco, Aon, Motorola, Cracker Barrel, and The American Heart Association; the head of The American Bar Association; the owner of The Biltmore Estate; Jackie Siegel, the &amp;quot;Queen of Versailles,&amp;quot; and a number of other notables and executives. He hasserved thousands&amp;nbsp;and hasn&amp;#39;t lost a customer yet.&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2007, Alan co-founded&amp;nbsp;The REAL Center, a school for relationship skills and natural living. Author of&amp;nbsp;The Haggadah Vita, Alan has led wild food Passoverseder&amp;nbsp;banquets for over twenty years. &amp;ldquo;Wild foods,&amp;rdquo; says Alan, &amp;ldquo;are a way of feeling&amp;nbsp;at home&amp;nbsp;in the world, i.e., that we are continually provided for and never alone.&amp;rdquo; Finally, his mother would like you to know that he graduated from Princeton.&amp;nbsp;With humor, warm-heartedness, and panache, &amp;quot;Woodsy Alan&amp;quot; awakens nature&amp;#39;s wayward offspring to the beauty and bounty of their bioregion. Ask anyone whoknows The Mushroom Man: when it comes to bringing out the&amp;nbsp;fun&amp;nbsp;in fungi, he&amp;#39;sthe&amp;nbsp;champignon.