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Michael Pollan talks about this in a few of his books. Some cultures are more mycophobic (USA), and some are more mycophilic (Russians, I would say Chinese as
by chubot 5y ago
Michael Pollan talks about this in a few of his books. Some cultures are more mycophobic (USA), and some are more mycophilic (Russians, I would say Chinese as well). I think you can attribute some of it to whether there are many poisonous mushrooms in that culture's land area!
I googled and found related quotes:
https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/05/21/berkeley-talks-transcript-michael-pollan-on-science-psychedelics-and-the-human-mind/ https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/05/21/berkeley-talks-transcri...
- filoeleven 5y agoKnowing your local species is super important. Apparently lots of poisoning cases in the (western?) US is because one of the toxic species looks a lot like an edible species in Asia.
- samstave 5y agoIm literally sitting here with "THE AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN MUSHROOMS" - And I am still terrified and amazed with them.