Mushrooms and Fungi

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2004

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We're taking a look at fungi, organisms that can feed you, make you crazy, take down your house, devour flesh, and save your life. Our guest is Nicholas Money, author of Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds and Mycologists and an expert on fungus growth and development. In keeping with the theme, Lynne shares her recipe for Portobello "Steaks" with Holy Oil.

Jane and Michael Stern report on the exceptional produce at George and Pink's Vegetable Stand on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Joshua Wesson claims there's a link between wines and the personalities of their makers. Chef Jerry Traunfeld talks lovage, an unusual and mostly forgotten herb that's highlighted in his recipe for Steamed Mussels with Lovage. And famed clarinetist Richard Stoltzman reveals his other passion—pastry making—and gives us his recipe for Linzer Torte.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

May 3, 2003 (originally aired)
April 24, 2004 (rebroadcast)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:08.1	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:24.4	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:30.9	It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table.
0:42.1	Yeah. table. Today it's the organism that can feed you, make you crazy, take down your house,
0:46.7	devour flesh, and save your life.
0:49.1	Our guest is Nicholas Money.
0:50.8	He's an expert on fungus, as in mushrooms.
0:53.9	His book is Mr. Bloomfield's
0:55.6	Orchard, The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Moles, and Mycologists. While the Stearns have unearthed
1:01.1	the ultimate farm stand and Great Low Country Food in South Carolina, wine expert Joshua
1:06.6	Wesson talks wine and personality. What a fearless cab or zany San Giovese reveals about its maker.
1:13.9	Then chef Jerry Trounfelds spotlights the forgotten herb, lovage,
1:18.5	and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman reveals his other passion.
1:22.6	All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table.
1:27.0	But first, this. Quietly you say to me, the time has come for you to be alive again.
2:00.0	But so you say and turn away and you must wait another day outside again
2:07.1	summer's coming and I'd like a review
2:13.7	summer's coming and I'd like a review
2:16.4	some is coming and in it like a review, Sun is coming in it like a review.
2:19.3	Summer's coming and I'd like a review.
2:23.3	Something is coming in it like a review.
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