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Known as the meat of the vegetable world, mushrooms have their ardent supporters as well as their fierce detractors. Hobbits go crazy over them, while Diderot thought they should be "sent back to the dung heap where they are born." In Mushroom, Cynthia D. Bertelsen examines the colorful history of these divisive edible fungi. As she reveals, their story is fraught with murder and accidental death, hunger and gluttony, sickness and health, religion and war. Some cultures equate them with the rottenness of life while others delight in cooking and eating them. And then there are those "magic" mushrooms, which some people link to ancient religious beliefs.
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- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Reaktion Books
- Publication Date:15/09/2013
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- ISBN:9781780232195
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Reaktion Books
- Publication Date:15/09/2013
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- ISBN:9781780232195