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SHROOM BOOM πŸ„, pt. 1: Mushroom Hunting

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4.8 β€’ 3.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the shroom boom. It's hard not to be a mushroom enthusiast considering all the practical and medicinal magic they can do. Not to mention, they're nutrish and delish. But also sometimes deadly! In part one of three, Maria Pinto - writer and mycophile (aka fungi lover) - takes us on a foray into wild mushroom hunting, the mycological (aka fungi study) community and how a hen of the woods mushroom changed her life.Β 

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I think they're just so beautiful fungi mushrooms specifically like the way that they fruit

0:06.6

they have so many different forms some of them look like coral at the bottom of the sea

0:12.0

some of them look like the antlers of an elk or the plumage of a bird.

0:17.7

My favorite wild mushroom to eat and to gaze out lovingly is the black trumpet and it looks like dead folks are just pushing up

0:27.1

trumpets and they have their own like brass band or something and you realize that especially if you got into foraging later in life that you've been just

0:36.2

walking by these beautiful organisms your whole life without really stopping to take a look and it's kind of intoxicating. I'm Lady Life.

0:55.0

A lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like. I've had a love.

1:05.0

This is Un Lady Like. I'm Kristen.

1:10.0

And in case you haven't noticed on ladies, we are in the midst of a

1:14.8

Shroom Boom.

1:17.1

Musheroms pickles, mushrooms raw, and delicious they are too.

1:21.6

Musrooms topped with almost as many fillings

1:23.9

as the hostess's imagination will allow.

1:25.9

And mushroom dips, they are just another variation.

1:30.9

The Romans had their own theory on the popularity of mushrooms.

1:34.0

They believed they stimulated strength and virility,

1:37.0

reserving them exclusively for the Caesars and the army.

1:40.0

Other citizens court eating them were liable to be executed.

1:43.0

Now that shouldn't worry anyone who's caught up with the 20th century party spirit.

1:47.0

Mushrooms in hot brandy.

1:50.0

Excuse me while I just savor the thought.

2:02.0

Edible mushrooms didn't make their way into American kitchens until the late 1800s. Prior to that they were often considered too mysterious, even witchy. But in

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