Mushroom: A Global History

by Cynthia D. Bertelsen and Athena Dixon

Known as the meat of the vegetable world, mushrooms have their ardent supporters as well as their fierce detractors. Hobbits go crazy over them, while Diderot thought they should be "sent back to the dung heap where they are born." In Mushroom, Cynthia D. Bertelsen examines the colorful history of these divisive edible fungi. As she reveals, their story is fraught with murder and accidental death, hunger and gluttony, sickness and health, religion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178023175X
• ISBN13: 9781780231754
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 8.1"