The Mushroom Underground

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

They’re a kingdom unto themselves, neither animal, vegetable, nor mineral. They count among their number both the world’s largest organism and millions of microscopic, single-celled creatures. And yet not only have they been an important—and delicious—food source for thousands of years, but they also seem to have powerful medicinal properties. What are these mysterious creatures? Fungi! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Kathleen and I, my wife went to art school.
0:04.4	Like, we were painters and printmakers and I don't know why we started growing mushrooms.
0:09.0	They're like at a nowhere.
0:10.5	But it's just something that it's a rabbit hole, you know, you're like, oh my god.
0:14.4	And that's sort of what we've always been after is if you can keep going in a million
0:18.4	directions you'll never lose interest.
0:20.2	And mushrooms are like that's a be warned, you know.
0:23.2	It's sort of scary.
0:27.2	I'll walk you up because we're about to take you down the mushroom rabbit hole.
0:31.2	So to speak.
0:32.2	This is Gastropod, the podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history.
0:36.0	I'm Cynthia Grieber and I'm Nicola Twilly and that was Eric Lomon, founder of Cap and
0:39.9	STEM Mushrooms.
0:40.9	Today we'll take you on a trip from Eric and his wife Kathleen's mushrooms start up in
0:44.9	Maine to the US National Fungus collection in Maryland.
0:48.3	There is such a thing and it's a national treasure.
0:51.4	I have two words for you.
0:53.1	Mushroom hats.
0:56.5	We generally divide the world into animal, vegetable and mineral but then there are the mushrooms
1:01.4	and what in the world are they?
1:03.1	They have been a source of some confusion throughout history.
1:06.5	The name mushroom, I mean no one knows exactly where that comes from.
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