Posts Tagged ‘1000 American Fungi’
Mushrooms and Madness: The Extraordinary Appetite of Charles McIlvaine
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 31, 1840 On this day, Charles McIlvaine entered the world in Chester County, Pennsylvania – a man destined to become one of history’s most peculiar gastronomic daredevils disguised as a mycologist. A…
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