442: Fantastic Fungi with Eugenia Bone
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Fantastic Fungi
with Eugenia Bone
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It’s mushroom season in Cataluña, so the markets are filled with orange, white, and even jet black “setas” that are almost all wild harvested. They're delicious and packed with a unique micronutrient profile that is great for your immune system. On this week's show, you´ll meet a mycophagist, writer, and teacher on all things fungi.
Did you know…
- A single Portabella mushroom can contain more potassium than a banana
- Fungi are believed to cover the earth’s surface before the first trees
- A 2,400 year old fungus in Oregon is believed to be the largest organism in the world covering 2,200 acres (8.9 km2?
- Psychedelic mushrooms, including microdoses, have shown efficacy for for depression, PTSD, and other mental health challenges
LInks & Resources
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Eugenia’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Saveur, Food & Wine, Gourmet, and The National Lampoon. She is the author of six books including her most recent award-winning Fantastic Fungi.
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| 0:00.0 | In the realm of super foods, one food that gets probably some of the least press but is most interesting are mushrooms. |
| 0:10.0 | And I personally think it's because they're strange. They're weird. It's not a plant, it's not an animal. |
| 0:15.5 | Smells funny, looks funny, can be dangerous. I think humans are not naturally gravitating to a mushroom the same way they are to an orange or an apple or a |
| 0:24.4 | carriage or something like this. At the same time they're nutritional powerhouses with |
| 0:28.0 | really tremendous immune boosting benefits and they taste amazing too if you get the right ones. |
| 0:35.3 | As I'm recording today we're in the midst of Cetas season here in Catalunia and |
| 0:40.8 | Cetas are wild mushrooms here in the hills and they cultivate them and sell them commercially, |
| 0:46.0 | but they're wild cultivated for the most part. |
| 0:48.0 | And they're orange and they're huge and they're funky and they're black and they're white and it's really quite an experience to gather them |
| 0:57.1 | although every time I've tried it gone I just get scraps it seems like the mushroom hunters have been there before me and on this week's show we'll be |
| 1:03.6 | chatting to a mushroom expert that is a thing and an author of many books on the |
| 1:08.2 | subject and hopefully spark your interest in number one eating more mushrooms |
| 1:11.6 | but potentially cultivating and maybe |
| 1:14.8 | gathering mushrooms and while that used to be a hard thing to organize these |
| 1:19.3 | days with online meet-up groups and apps and things like that. It's getting more and more accessible, |
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