Mushrooms
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
From the king oyster to the not-so-humble button, Dan Saladino discovers a world of mushrooms, grown for food - and follows the spores to reveal the secrets of mycelium, hunts for the perfect mushroom sandwich, and finds that there is one species in particular that dominates the supermarkets and our kitchens.
With more types of cultivated mushroom available in the UK now than there has ever been, Dan hears about Korean mushrooms grown in jars, visits Europe's biggest mushroom farm, and tracks down the biggest global company in the ultra-specialised world of spawn production. Dan also encounters a photographer whose street-food mushroom project inspired him to create a new type of imagery - the 'fungi luminogram', gets insights from Eugenia Bone - author of 'Mycophilia' - and Paul Stamets, legendary mycologist and advocate of mycelium. There will also be plenty of butter and garlic.
Presenter: Dan Saladino Producer: Rich Ward.
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| 0:55.0 | And now, enjoy the podcast. Oyster mushroom button mushroom my taki that's the hen of the |
| 1:06.8 | woods beautiful shades of deep yellow and gold noki |
| 1:10.5 | chitaki mushrooms special order today. |
| 1:13.9 | From its place in a morning fry up to an ingredient in a humble soup, mushrooms are one of the most commonly |
| 1:19.9 | bought foods in the UK, but this is food with a difference. |
| 1:25.0 | Their unusual culinary position being not an animal and not a vegetable, but something in between |
| 1:31.7 | or altogether different. |
| 1:33.0 | In this program, we're going to shed some light on the mushroom, looking into some of the less familiar places where they dwell. |
| 1:41.0 | Right now, wild mushroom season is going strong, but we won't be going into the woods today. |
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