It’s been great weather for mushrooms lately. Dry the last few days, but yet we found all these on a short walk in our little wooded neighborhood park.
Years ago I was on a nature hike with day camp parents, and a European woman talked about a village she’s lived in where people collected mushrooms, and each town had a mushroom expert who could tell you which were poisonous. She said that the Italian people there (she was french) believed that if you ate poisonous mushrooms with a silver utensil you’d be safe. i asked her how that worked out. She said, “A lot of people got sick and some died.”
Years ago I was on a nature hike with day camp parents, and a European woman talked about a village she’s lived in where people collected mushrooms, and each town had a mushroom expert who could tell you which were poisonous. She said that the Italian people there (she was french) believed that if you ate poisonous mushrooms with a silver utensil you’d be safe. i asked her how that worked out. She said, “A lot of people got sick and some died.”