The Gourmand’s Mushroom: A Collection of Stories and Recipes

Name: Taschen The Gourmand's Egg - coffee table book
SKU: The Gourmands Mushroom
Price: 40.00 EUR
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A medley of stories and recipes that explore mushrooms as myth, medicine, and muse

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Fungal Fantasia.

The Gourmand’s Mushroom: A Collection of Stories & Recipes is a feast of content on the most mysterious, influential, and quietly radical ingredients on Earth. Revered as food, medicine, sacrament, and symbol, mushrooms appear suddenly and vanish just as quickly, leaving an unmistakable cultural and culinary aftertaste.

This richly layered collection brings together The Gourmand's signature a blend of culinary craftsmanship and cultural exploration. Accompanied by photographs that celebrate mycological wonders as sculpture, pattern, and form, readers will enjoy essays ranging from ancient folklore and toxicology to avant-garde art, architecture, fashion, film, and space travel. Meet Bosch and Beatrix Potter, María Sabina and the CIA, Yayoi Kusama, and Takashi Murakami. Delight in cartoon mushrooms, fairy rings, death caps, fly agaric, and the enduring allure of the enchanted lingzhi. Explore fungi’s strange power to inspire devotion, fear, obsession, and delight.

Hardcover, 20 x 27.9 cm, 1.40 kg, 292 pages