Zapotec narrative
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WTF, Joe. You go to California every chance you get to pick mushrooms and now Mexico, what, for the second or third time, but you've yet to go in your own backyard. We have cool mushrooms here, you know. I've only been suggesting we go on an expedition here for 10 years now. No more of that "I don't know where to look here" excuse. We go in the woods, we look down for mushrooms. Maybe Connie can give you a suggestion of where to look locally, but if Westchester is too far, I'm sure the suburbs of NJ will work.
Ice Cream Man
Bob Graeter
I take it that you were there for the Feria de Hongos. Where do you stay in that remote region?
I love the picture of the chapulines vendor. I have fond memories of the market in Oaxaca where basket after basket of them were lined up for sale. An incredibly healthy snack food if you can get past the idea of eating grasshoppers. Cooking in lime and chili helps with the taste. Goes well with a pint of Pacifico.
I love the picture of the chapulines vendor. I have fond memories of the market in Oaxaca where basket after basket of them were lined up for sale. An incredibly healthy snack food if you can get past the idea of eating grasshoppers. Cooking in lime and chili helps with the taste. Goes well with a pint of Pacifico.
The usual: lead in the soil, from either lead in the air being precipitated by rain or runoff from industrial waste, entering plants that are then eaten by the insects. In the usual way, contaminants like lead are usually concentrated as they move up the foodchain, so it's likely that the bugs contain a greater amount of lead per unit mass than do the plants that they feed on.
Mark Lipton
Poor tecomate is being elbowed aside in some circles by yema.
But I don't see a push to reunite European and Mesoamerican caesarea.
But I don't see a push to reunite European and Mesoamerican caesarea.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
But good to know that high standards are being maintained, e.g., from the link:
"The authors separate A. yema and A. tecomate only by a difference in spore size. The spore shapes are in fact essentially identical. The arguments given for the separation are not convincing to us."
"The authors separate A. yema and A. tecomate only by a difference in spore size. The spore shapes are in fact essentially identical. The arguments given for the separation are not convincing to us."