Fungi, fermentation, vinegars, ground meat

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Simran Sethi explores how to reconnect with the earth through mushrooms in her series “Fruiting Bodies” for the Museum of Food and Drink. Andrea Gentl shares how her experiences photographing mushroom hunters inspired her to reconnect with her upbringing and bring mushrooms into her home kitchen. Rain means mushrooms for Tutti Frutti. Barbara Whyman tells us about foraging them and Travis Hayden has ideas for how to cook with them. Food historian Julia Skinner explores the roots of fermented foods, from bread and kimchi, to coffee and cheese. Forager Pascal Baudar uncovers place-based vinegars across various landscapes. Finally, Lisa Gill of Consumer Reports outlines dangerous bacterias found in ground beef.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman and you're listening to good food.
0:06.2	If the phrase New Year, New You sounds trite to you,
0:10.3	then perhaps the mushroom can offer some inspiration.
0:14.0	With the ability to stay dormant for years and then resurrecting themselves with reinvention,
0:20.0	mushrooms just might beat the share of the natural world.
0:25.0	We all know certain mushrooms can expand our consciousness,
0:29.0	but journalist in academic Simrancite wants us to expand our minds when it comes to culinary mushrooms too.
0:37.2	She recently curated a three-part virtual series for the Museum of Food and Drink called Fruiting Bodies and
0:44.2	exploration of mushrooms through a decolonial lens.
0:48.9	Hi, Simran.
0:50.1	Hi, Evan.
0:51.9	I'm so happy you're back. Me too. It's so good to connect with you. You always have something so interesting in your purview.
1:02.0	Who are your guest experts in the three-part series?
1:07.0	The guest experts in the series are
1:09.4	Juliano Forci, who is the founder of fungi Foundation.
1:14.0	She's a mycologist and an activist
1:16.1	and is also the co-chair of the International Union
1:19.5	for Conservation of Nature on the Fungal Conservation Committee.
1:24.0	And then the second talk that we did was with a senior mycologist Jennifer Doe,
1:30.0	who is also the co-founder of Forage Mushrooms in Canada.
1:34.0	And we got a chance to talk about Asian history
1:36.8	and culture as it relates to mushrooms.
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