Word: mushrooming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prisoner on death row was asked what he would like for his last meal. "A wild-mushroom omelet," he said. "I never had the courage to try one before...
Like the condemned man of the anecdote, most Americans still recoil instinctively from any kind of mushroom that is not snow white, cellophane wrapped and supermarket sanitized. In the past few years, however, the succulent edible fungi that grow wild for the picking in almost every part of the country have found ever increasing acceptance in restaurant and home menus. At Dean & DeLuca, a Manhattan gourmet emporium that sells up to 100 Ibs. of fresh domestic wild mushrooms a week, Produce Purchasing Manager Lee Grimsbo notes, "People are beginning to think of them as a cooking item rather than something...
...controversy in the history of Harvard which filled the pages of The Crimson and preoccupied the national news media for months 20 years ago Drs. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, both psychologist and members of the Harvard. Faculty, had discovered psilocybin, a consciousness altering substance in the "magic mushroom," and were busy persuading graduates and un dergraduates to take it--in some in stances as part of a course for credit They arranged sessions--called "drug trips" by their opposition--for groups as diverse as prisoners in the Concord Reformatory and worshippers at an Easter Service to take psilocybin...
...circumstances, Child shows no sign of strain or temper. At 70, an unstooped 6 ft. 2 in., she strides and chops as energetically as the Smith College basketball player she once was-though to stay at 170 Ibs. she is a periodic Scarsdale Dieter. Out to stalk the wild mushroom, equipped with topee, stout stick, a yellow slicker and blue New Balance sneakers, she slogged through viscous mud that bogged down her party's four-wheel-drive Bronco, gathering a basketful of the yellow, peppery, precious ($8 per Ib.) chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius) that had been prodigally "planted...
...ensuing campaign did neither candidate proud. The Governor tried to pick up votes by highlighting his position on the state's nuclear-freeze initiative, but alienated many voters with a heavyhanded TV spot. After a small boy said he wanted "to go on living," a mushroom cloud filled the screen and an announcer intoned: "Pete Wilson opposes the nuclear-arms freeze. Jerry Brown supports it. Vote for your life. Elect Jerry Brown to the U.S. Senate...