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...vaugely disturbed by it’s aggressive materiality, but looking at Kline, I have to say I was positively repulsed. There is something uncannily biological about the pattern of deep crevices and protruding nubs of encaustic that build up its mounded surface. It reminds me of a giant fungus-—if I reached out and touched it, I don’t think I would be surprised if its surface was warm and slimy, or even, for that matter, if it tried to suck me in by my finger and eat me like some unholy slime from...
...mushroom," says chef David Waltuck of New York City's Chanterelle. The aromatic treasures often command truffle-like prices, once selling for as much as $500 per lb. But a rainy summer and a sunny early fall in the Pacific Northwest have led to a profusion of the fungus, with prices falling as low as $14 per lb. Chefs nationwide are reveling in the bounty. At Arterra in San Diego, the mushrooms are paired with salmon or Dungeness crab, while Le Paradou in Washington is featuring matsutake ravioli. "Their aroma perfectly represents the change from summer to fall," says Josh...
...nong loves thunder. "It makes the mushrooms so scared, they simply jump out of the ground," he jokes. Sui-nong spends each summer scaling 3,500-meter ridges in China's Yunnan province searching for mushrooms of a very special sort: the matsutake, a fungus prized above all others by Japanese gourmets...
...nong loves thunder. "It makes the mushrooms so scared, they simply jump out of the ground," he jokes. Sui-nong spends each summer scaling 3,500-m ridges in China's Yunnan province searching for mushrooms of a very special sort: the matsutake, a fungus prized above all others by Japanese gourmets. Matsutakecan't be cultivated - attempts to do so have eluded the world's experts. And they're anything but easy to find, growing under beds of pine needles or on the roots of ancient fir trees. They have to be rooted out extremely carefully to avoid damage. Scrambling...
...Ringworm These are round, crusty skin lesions caused by a fungus that can spread via touch from cats or dogs...