William Strother wrote:

>He (John Cage) had been out for days locating the best mushrooms in
>California which became the basis for a great meal.

I wonder if he was out locating them in stores or in the wild.  I, too,
interviewed Cage in 1976 at his rented hideaway in Stony Point, NY, where
the composer, a dedicated mushroom hunter, described numerous places nearby
where he liked to go to find certain ones.

A surprisingly gentle man, Cage told me how much he valued silence,
complaining that the birds singing outside his cottage in the early morning
were getting to be a distraction.  "It's actually quieter in the city," he
said.

John Dalmas
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