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White Gold (2015)
- mc32 8y agoThis is about a sought-after white mushroom, prized in Japan for infusing dishes with nuances flavors, but it hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber... Interesting none the less.
- sudouser 8y agothanks, reminded me of a quite funny old japanese show about how a family got one piece, and how prized it was, specially for the kid , who ends up eating it and not sharing a bit !
- kqr 8y agoAlso used for rhodiated or palladiated gold-as-in-the-element-aurum.
- mc32 8y agoSure, I think that's more a literal meaning, rather than the metaphorical sense the article was going for. As a metaphor, it's more common and way longer associated with king cotton.
- ableal 8y ago> hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber I thought of the alloy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold#White_gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold#White_gold - and the wiki disambiguation page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Gold ) also misses the cotton reference. It does exist abundantly, but seems mostly to be used in cotton producing countries ...
- jasonkostempski 8y agoI thought it was going to be about cocain.
- nicheasta 8y agoIn the area that I live there are plenty of eatable mushrooms but sadly none like that. I wonder how it actually tastes but wouldn't ever pay so much for a mushroom
- mchahn 8y agoWhy isn't something so valuable farmed? I have seen great mushroom farms in abandoned tunnels in Pennsylvania. P.S. Great photos.
- yongjik 8y agoIt's not for lack of trying. Whoever finds out how to farm these mushrooms will be filthy rich.