Tag: mushrooms

Front facade of Houghton Library

Don’t Eat That Mushroom!

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Mushrooms- they are cheap and legal, but how do you ensure that you don’t eat the wrong one?  Hallucinogenic Mushrooms contains information on identification, buying and eating mushrooms, different species, current laws, as well as poisonous mushrooms in Britain. This…

What’s for dinner?

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Feeling a bit peckish?  Why not try a delicious dish featuring Boletus edulis, which are fleshy mushroom-like fungi which have tubes in place of gills.  They are often characterized as being “spongy underneath.”   To make one version…