General | WEEK 3 Oct 16, 2011
In search of the Holy Grail of mushrooms
The ancients were none too complimentary about their fungi. "Few of them are good, and most produce a choking sensation," wrote Marcus Athenaeus of Naucratis 1,800 years ago in "Deipnosophistae" ("Philosophers at Dinner"). The proto-vegetarian and Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger had been equally disdainful ...
