Showing posts with label fungi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fungi. Show all posts
Tuesday, 7 August 2018

Mushrooms can help resolve our waste disposal problems. Why are we ignoring them?

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So I'm sat in an LGA EEHT Board meeting (don't ask) and the matter under discussion is waste management. You know about this stuff a...
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Friday, 19 August 2016

Friday Fungus: Squatting on Planet Mushroom

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Us humans think the planet we live on is ours. A plaything gifted to us by gods filled with good things for us to use. We've colonise...
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Saturday, 6 August 2016

Trade deals are more likely to be about fruit and fungus than tariffs

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Yesterday New Zealand suspended exports of Kiwi Fruit to China. Not because of some new form of vegetable-based trade war but for reasons ...
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Tuesday, 22 December 2015

There will soon be no bananas

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Probably. Here from a fantastic article on fungi in The New Yorker: A particular strain of Fusarium, Tropical Race One, rendered the...
Friday, 13 November 2015

Friday Fungus: On the shocking absence of mushrooms in Neal Stephenson's 'Seveneves'

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I'm a lot of a fan of Neal Stephenson's writing - he is among the most creative and innovative of modern SF writers. And '...
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Friday, 10 July 2015

Friday Fungus: Terroir - or how fungi make your wine taste different

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The idea of 'terroir' is well-known to wine buffs and is most commonly described as : In a larger context, wine tasters try to de...
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Friday, 6 February 2015

Friday Fungus: Penicillium salamii - the sausage fungus

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You all know dear readers that molds and fungi are essential in artisan food production. You may also know that one role for these chaps i...
Friday, 16 January 2015

Friday Fungus - why fungi are so important

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Stinkhorn It's probably true that we wouldn't be here were in not for fungi - it was the mushroom brotherhood that first coloni...
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Friday, 26 September 2014

'Of Mycelium and Men' - thoughts on the evolution of fungi...

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Steve Manthorp wanted me to call this 'Of Mycelium and Men' and it's such a good title I have shamelessly thieved the idea. ...
Friday, 29 March 2013

Friday fungus: No blue cheese isn't going away...

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Penicillium roqueforti - the fungus that makes blue cheese blue This afternoon Kathryn tripped into the dining room where I was loungin...
Saturday, 3 December 2011

Friday Fungus: A sad tale - and probably a wise warning

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Dogs have a terrible habit of eating almost everything : Devastated Fred Marchment and his wife were walking with their three dogs at ...
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Sunday, 18 September 2011

Friday Fungus Extra: Mapping Magic Mushrooms

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Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) in woods above Ogden reservoir near Halifax, September 2011 Nice little piece in today's Sunday Telegra...
Saturday, 13 August 2011

Friday Fungus: didn't see the dryad though!

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  Pretty sure this is dryad's saddle (Polyporus squamosus) - although I'm happy to be corrected. We're told that you can make p...
Friday, 12 February 2010

Friday Fungus: Mushrooms for dessert

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I've been promising you so mushroom puddings for a while - but there's no point in reinventing the wheel. I know having mushrooms f...
Friday, 5 February 2010

Friday Fungus: don't just eat your mushrooms raw - marinade them!

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My natural instinct when told that something is bad for me (usually by some self-appointed nutritionist or a jumped up, ill-informed health...
Friday, 22 January 2010

The Friday Fungus: Vegetarian? Don't eat mycoproteins, eat real mushrooms!

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There’s always been one thing about vegetarianism I don’t understand – why some veggies seem dedicated to searching for something that, to p...
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Friday, 15 January 2010

Friday Fungus: Morels

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As the Autumn months slip away our thoughts of mushrooms tend to fade – after all mushrooms are characteristic of those damp, misty times no...
Friday, 8 January 2010

Friday Fungus:The Great Mushroom Clean-Up! How fungi are helping clear up our mess!

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Fungi have many uses – not only are they great food and essential to the production of bread and beer but they have applications in the “bi...
Friday, 18 December 2009

Friday Fungus: Snow Mushrooms

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Seemed appropriate given the current weather to talk about enoki - Japanese Snow Mushrooms ( Flammulina velutipes ). If you've an int...
Thursday, 10 December 2009

The Friday Fungus: Fairy Rings

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One of the most well known edible mushrooms – and one of the less popular – is Marasmius Oreades the fairy ring mushroom . Some of you m...