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These are books that explore mushrooms and fungi from the perspective of food and food science, e.g. books that explore the chemical and nutritional compositions of edible mushrooms, or books of recipes specializing in using wild mushrooms. Fischer, David (1992). Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-to-Kitchen Guide. Austin ...
Courses about mushroom cultivation can be attended in many countries around Europe. There is education available for growing mushrooms on coffee grounds, [37] [38] more advanced training for larger scale farming, [39] spawn production and lab work [40] and growing facilities. [41] Events are organised with different intervals.
On September 3, 1977, in Tampa, Florida, while the Second International Mycological Congress was ongoing, Pollock and Gary Lincoff discovered a new species of psychoactive mushroom, which they named Psilocybe tampanensis. [7] [3]: 3–4 Pollock wrote a book on Magic Mushroom Cultivation in 1977.
Psilocybe Mushrooms & Their Allies (1978), Homestead Book Company, ISBN 978-0-930180-03-4; The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home (1983), Paul Stamets and J. S. Chilton, Agarikon Press, ISBN 9780961079802; Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms (1993; 3rd edition: 2000), Ten Speed Press, ISBN 978-1-58008-175-7
Pholiota squarrosa growing at the base of a tree. A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source.
The New York Mycological Society recently posted a warning about Amazon and other retailers offering mushroom foraging and identification books written with A.I. “Please only buy books of known ...
In his 1992 book Food of the Gods, McKenna proposed that the transformation from humans' early ancestors Homo erectus to the species Homo sapiens mainly involved the addition of the mushroom Psilocybe cubensis in the diet, [26] [73] [74] an event that according to his theory took place about 100,000 BCE (when he believed humans diverged from ...
Advances in cultivation have made the fungus cheaper and more widely available; in 1998, about 1,100 metric tons (1,100 long tons; 1,200 short tons) were produced in China. [15] The Hong Kong price for a kilogram of dried mushrooms reached around US $770 in 1982, but had dropped to US $100–200 by 1988.