Tired of plain old smiling jack-o'-lantern faces? Carve a set of fun polka-dotted mushrooms into your front porch pumpkin instead! Proudly proclaim your favorite reason for a woodsy stroll by carving ...

Fluting a mushroom is one of the first techniques I learned as a teen-age apprentice in the restaurant kitchens of Paris. Back in those formal and highly stylized days, a chef would no sooner send out ...

Netsuke carved as three edamame (soy-beans) arranged in a circular formation; a gnarled stump of a plum tree, a young branch with new blossoms and buds; netsuke carved as two mushrooms, 19th century ...