The young woman sitting next to me on my flight to Portland, Ore., tapped me on the shoulder. "You've been marking up that book for a long time. What is it?"
" 'Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms,' by Eugenia Bone," I said. "It's all about fungi. That might sound boring, but it's fascinating.Accept credit cards with a third party merchant account,"
"Would my mom like it? She's a gardener."
"Absolutely," I told her. "Everyone would like it."
Well, maybe not everyone,Bathroom Floor tiles at Great Prices from Topps Tiles. but Bone's book about mycophilia -- the love of mushrooms -- will delight many readers. Reading it muted the discomforts of my five-hour flight so thoroughly that I was actually shocked when the pilot said we were landing.
Bone is a New York food writer and author whose mushroom zeal began with her taste buds. She makes a charming and witty tour guide through the vast world of fungi, which make up 25 percent of the world's biomass and are more closely related to animals than plants. (This is why, she points out, it's so hard to rid ourselves of fungal infections -- the medications that attack the fungus also attack us).
Her attention was first snagged when a Colorado massage therapist offered to take her mushroom hunting. She was dazzled to find orange chanterelleBuy oil paintings for sale online.s and a porcini. A few weeks later, Bone's husband wanted her to tromp to the top of a mountain with friends and she, a reluctant hiker, agreed. After about five minutes, though, her newly honed mushroom eye brought the natural world to life for her.
"One minute we were walking through the forest, and then, as if by magic,VulcanMold is a plastic molds and Injection mold manufacturer in china. we witnessed the conversion of the forest floor," she writes. "Everywhere, boletus [porcini]: big spongy mature specimens and hard young ones that looked like beige softballs growing in tidy rows along the side of fallen timber."
Bone was now hooked on wild mushrooms, but didn't like the prices back in New York. So she joined the New York Mycological Society, solely because the group offered guided mushroom hunts. At her first meeting, she realized that this subculture had interests far more esoteric than hers.
"I pretended to be interested in all mushrooms, nodding with phony delight at the slides of inedible molds or polypores or whatever," she writes. "I was embarrassed to admit I was participating in a scientific club mainly in anticipation of spring, when the morels came up and the hunting would begin.MDC Mould specialized of Injection moulds,"
But as she started foraging, and attending mycological conferences around the country -- including a magic-mushroom festival in Telluride, Colo. -- she found her interest swelling. The book is rich with scientific detail on the classifications, habits and properties of fungi, as well as facts that are downright staggering.
Who knew that a cubic meter of air holds up to 10,000 fungal spores, which we inhale every time we breathe? Who knew that dense mats of mycelium -- the white, stringy fungal matter under the ground -- are the primary vector for nutrients to most plants? Who knew that dessert truffles in the Middle East may have been the "manna from heaven" described in the Bible?
" 'Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms,' by Eugenia Bone," I said. "It's all about fungi. That might sound boring, but it's fascinating.Accept credit cards with a third party merchant account,"
"Would my mom like it? She's a gardener."
"Absolutely," I told her. "Everyone would like it."
Well, maybe not everyone,Bathroom Floor tiles at Great Prices from Topps Tiles. but Bone's book about mycophilia -- the love of mushrooms -- will delight many readers. Reading it muted the discomforts of my five-hour flight so thoroughly that I was actually shocked when the pilot said we were landing.
Bone is a New York food writer and author whose mushroom zeal began with her taste buds. She makes a charming and witty tour guide through the vast world of fungi, which make up 25 percent of the world's biomass and are more closely related to animals than plants. (This is why, she points out, it's so hard to rid ourselves of fungal infections -- the medications that attack the fungus also attack us).
Her attention was first snagged when a Colorado massage therapist offered to take her mushroom hunting. She was dazzled to find orange chanterelleBuy oil paintings for sale online.s and a porcini. A few weeks later, Bone's husband wanted her to tromp to the top of a mountain with friends and she, a reluctant hiker, agreed. After about five minutes, though, her newly honed mushroom eye brought the natural world to life for her.
"One minute we were walking through the forest, and then, as if by magic,VulcanMold is a plastic molds and Injection mold manufacturer in china. we witnessed the conversion of the forest floor," she writes. "Everywhere, boletus [porcini]: big spongy mature specimens and hard young ones that looked like beige softballs growing in tidy rows along the side of fallen timber."
Bone was now hooked on wild mushrooms, but didn't like the prices back in New York. So she joined the New York Mycological Society, solely because the group offered guided mushroom hunts. At her first meeting, she realized that this subculture had interests far more esoteric than hers.
"I pretended to be interested in all mushrooms, nodding with phony delight at the slides of inedible molds or polypores or whatever," she writes. "I was embarrassed to admit I was participating in a scientific club mainly in anticipation of spring, when the morels came up and the hunting would begin.MDC Mould specialized of Injection moulds,"
But as she started foraging, and attending mycological conferences around the country -- including a magic-mushroom festival in Telluride, Colo. -- she found her interest swelling. The book is rich with scientific detail on the classifications, habits and properties of fungi, as well as facts that are downright staggering.
Who knew that a cubic meter of air holds up to 10,000 fungal spores, which we inhale every time we breathe? Who knew that dense mats of mycelium -- the white, stringy fungal matter under the ground -- are the primary vector for nutrients to most plants? Who knew that dessert truffles in the Middle East may have been the "manna from heaven" described in the Bible?
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