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The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

749: The Magnificent Mushroom

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, we get into the beauty of mushrooms with wild foods expert Eugenia Bone and Anna L. Tsing, author of The Mushroom at the End of the World

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Hey, it's Francis. This week we're going back to an episode we made last year. After I watched

1:07.7

this incredible documentary called Fantastic Fun Guy and it's about how mushrooms are basically like

1:13.6

the most amazing life form on earth. Anyway, check it out.

1:16.8

I'm Francis Lam and this is the splendid table from APM. Look, I'll be the first person to tell you

1:27.1

that I have weird taste in movies. I don't mean like cool, weird, like I only watch Spanish

1:34.6

surrealist art films, but just absolutely random weird, like for a three year period, for no

1:40.8

apparent reason. The only movies I watch were all about Mongolia. They weren't bad movies, but I

1:46.8

guess what I'm saying is I am not a film connoisseur. Still, I want to tell you about this movie

1:51.6

I saw the other day. A documentary about mushrooms called Fantastic Fun Guy. Yes, I literally just

1:57.9

said a documentary about mushrooms. Anyway, it was incredible to look at. There were all these

2:04.0

mesmerizing stop-motion videos of mushrooms sprouting and devouring things. Half the movie is about

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