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Mycological Positivism.('Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard' and 'Peter Jordan's Wild Mushroom Bible')(Book Review)

The New Yorker

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Nicholas P. Money is wild about mushrooms. "I count myself among the few humans who love fungi, truly, madly, deeply,"he writes in MR. BLOOMFIELD'S ORCHARD (Oxford), a companionable foray into the realm of stinkhorns, black mold, yeast, and even Malassezia, the dandruff-related fungus that Head & Shoulders shampoo is designed to combat. Money is an English-born mycologist who has spent his life uncovering the secrets and lore of fungi, including varieties that thrive in solid granite, feed on human flesh, assist in crime-scene investigations, and, as in the case of a particular armillaria covering twenty-two hundred acres in Oregon, grow to become the largest organisms on earth.

Of course, the fruiting bodies of various fungi are prized for their epicurian and hallucinogenic properties. In MOREL TALES (Illinois), the sociologist Gary ...

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