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This is a case of I should‘ve read the reviews on audible. Bone digs into the world of mushrooms, including the science, mushroom hunting, and psychedelics. In the essay on mushroom hunting, she makes a lot of very racist assumptions about Asian and Latinx folks. She is also a very snobby about being from New York. However when she was talking about science and food, instead of people, I enjoyed this. A so-so with cautions.

Everyone loves mushrooms now, myself included! It‘s great! I expected this to be more “scientific”, and while it did have a good amount of biology, it also had tons of anecdotes on mushroom pickers, mushroom commerce, mushroom farming, mushroom conferences… it‘s a wild world out there!

The author's observations of mushrooms and its uses in cultures and her personal experience. I will do some research on the information to double check, but I believe her because she seems to be passionate enough about mushrooms to write her experiences. I think that there isn't a bias because she is sharing info. She is clearly showing fungi in a positive light as well as how its a poison and a drug and how fungi is important to culture/food.

Non fiction, reading this book is like listening to someone who is passionate about mushrooms. The book is basically about how fungi is used. The author has also made a few cookbooks. She has clearly used her experiences in cooking as information in this book because she talks about how it can be cooked in a variety of ways. Although I don't plan on being a chef, I wouldn't mind cooking with mushrooms because they are healthy and I like the taste.

Prepping some #litsylove

The mycorrhizal mushroom sounds exceptionally beautiful and complex. Ubiquitous and mysterious, I'm starting to see them everywhere now 🍄

Eugenia Bone is either a Pynchon or a wizard name, and I'm leaning towards the latter. I guess it makes sense then that she wrote a book about mushrooms ? This is part one of the "Moving to Oregon" Series. Many more to come...?#takemeaway