By Emma Stuhl - From grizzlies to wolves to the people-eating plant in The Little Shop of Horrors, carnivores capture our imaginations, and sometimes send shivers down our spines. So, imagine my astonishment and wonder when I recently learned that below the ground, at a microscopic scale, there are fungi that hunt and eat live… Continue reading A Grisly Meal
By Ellen Gawarkiewicz - They rose up from the ground like golden fingers, grasping the earth of the Northern White Cedar Swamp. Once aware of their presence, I began seeing their relatives everywhere. Black tongues sprouting from stumps, miniature sheets of rolling parchment across a log, raisin-like swellings on branches, delicate feathers and elegant goblets… Continue reading Mushrooms in our Midst
By Colin Stone Peacock I am the glistening, blackened, and charred non-stick remains of a foodie. Enameled by years of cooking and eating professionally, I am unphased by the most ample and esoteric culinary ingredients and pathologies. But the bitter kimchi of my heart sweetened ever so slightly the summer before last, when I met… Continue reading A Chicken of the Woods
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