This is no ordinary book about mushrooms. It is the story of the capricious and sought-after porcini, about porcini biology, its cultural history, where to find it, the global economy of the porcini, and of course a good selection of recipes with porcini as the main ingredient. The mushroom to which people in North Italy give their lives each autumn, simply in an attempt to find it. The mushroom that Karl XIV Johan, King of Sweden and Norway, lifted aloft and gave his name to forever. The mushroom that gives poor Chinese farmers and American dropouts a better life. The mushroom that the Romans loved and which has become an important part of the Italian identity. Highly prized by gourmets and enjoying a global market worth over a billion Euros. No one cultivates it, though many have tried. The porcino will not be tamed. It is born to be wild.
Pål Karlsen
Porcini. Born to be Wild

Z-Forlag
2014
208 Pages
Original title: Steinsoppen - Vill av natur
ISBN: 978-82-93187-19-6
208 Pages
Original title: Steinsoppen - Vill av natur
ISBN: 978-82-93187-19-6
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agentur literatur Gudrun Hebel
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Edited September 05, 2019
by agentur literatur Gudrun Hebel
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