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The Love , Lore , and Mystique of Mushrooms
Greg Marley
Paperback
$ 29.95
- Winner , International Association of Culinary Professionals Jane Grigson Award*Finalist , International Association of Culinary Professionals in the Culinary History categoryThroughout history , people have had a complex and confusing relationship with mushroom . Are fungi food or medical specialty , beneficial decomposers or pernicious “ toadstools ” ready to kill anyone reckless enough to eat them ? In fact , there is truth in all these statements . InChanterelle Dreams , Amanita Nightmares , author Greg Marley reveals some of the wonders and mysteries of mushroom , and our conflicting human reaction to them .
With tales from around the human beings , Marley , a seasoned mushroom expert , excuse that some culture are mycophilic ( mushroom - loving ) , like those of Russia and Eastern Europe , while others are intensely mycophobic ( mushroom - fearing ) , including , the US . He shares stories from China , Japan , and Korea - where mushrooms are interlocking into the fabric of day-to-day life sentence as food for thought , medicine , fable , and folklore - and from Slavonic state where whole families exit villages and cities during showery periods of the belated summertime and hang and shlep into the forests for mushroom - collect excursion .
From the illustrious Amanita phalloides ( aka “ the Death Cap ” ) , take to be Orcinus orca of Emperor Claudius in the first century AD , to the dear chantarelle ( genus Cantharellus cibarius ) sleep together by at least eighty - nine different common names in almost twenty - five languages , Chanterelle Dreams , Amanita Nightmaresexplores the ways that mushrooms have mould societies all over the globe .
This fascinating and overbold look at mushrooms - their born history , their America and insult , their pleasures and dangers - is a splendid unveiling to both fungus kingdom themselves and to our human fascination with them . From useful descriptions of the most unfailing edible species to unveil write up about hallucinogenic or poisonous , yet often beautiful , fungus , Marley ’s long and passionate experience will inform and inspire readers with the tale of these dour and occult denizens of our wood floor .
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