It is porcini season and the cooking shows, markets and restaurants in Italy are featuring porcini mushrooms. Delicious and easy to cook, this is the most beautiful mushroom and a superstar of Italian cuisine."It...
The Burgundy is well known for its gastronomy, history and excellent wines. It is old France - a land of culture with historic castles, Roman roads and magnificent Romanesque churches. As you slowly cruise along...
Jamie Oliver cooked up a 'Best of British' feast for the G20 leaders tonight in Downing Street, ahead of the Summit meeting tomorrow morning. Oliver, along with young chefs from his 'Fifteen' restaurant, used produce from all over the country, and started with organic salmon...
created by Amy Judd | 38 wks ago 165 views | 10 recommendations | 0 comments
"You are what you eat" –right?––After reading this alarming report, I'll never be able to buy packaged / processed foods again! This information is relevant to all of us everywhere around the world, since most packaged foods are made up of 'imported and local' produce....
opinion by Maireid Sullivan | 44 wks ago | updated 44 wks ago 428 views | 11 recommendations | 6 comments
I hike around the Coos Bay Area from time to time. This day, I was hiking with my dog Joanna in the Charleston area. I came across a small patch of extraordinary Fungi/mushroom type on the side of the trail....
created by brenda.salzano | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 252 views | 13 recommendations | 6 comments
A Berlin chocolate shop had a special menu, it seems: candies laced with magic mushrooms or cannabis. That sort of thing tends to attract law-enforcement attention."The 23-year-old owner of the shop in the trendy east Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, an area known for its...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 341 views | 6 recommendations | 3 comments
The author of the best-selling book "The Horse Whisperer" is in the hospital in Scotland after eating some poisonous mushrooms. He had cooked the mushrooms himself after finding them in the woods."Bestselling...
created by Dave Keating | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 445 views | 17 recommendations | 6 comments
Mushrooms prove to be unsuspecting and as deadly as ever. Be wary of what you eat, even if it is pretty. "Westchester County's health department says Zoila Tapia found the pure-white mushrooms July 6, in a wooded...
created by jessica.lam | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 2689 views | 2 recommendations | 15 comments
"A study revealed that an illegal drug psilocybin has long-term positive effects on an individual's well-being. Psilocybin is a hallucinogenic substance derived from certain types of mushrooms and is considered illegal, claimed to have a high potential for abuse in the...
created by dimon | 1 year ago 310 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Netherlands, famed for its tolerant stance on "soft drugs", is beginning to shift its official views in light of recent incidents involving tourists. Psylocibin, aka magic mushrooms, are legally sold from licensed...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 998 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
A lot of people from the UK only visit for 2 days, this is one way of getting tourists to stay longer. "
THE HAGUE (AFP) - A new proposal from the mayor of Amsterdam is sure to be considered a bummer by certain visitors to the Dutch city: a three-day waiting period to buy...
created by Vinny | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 474 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"ST. MARTINVILLE, La. -
Willie Nelson and his tour manager were spared jail time Tuesday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession.
Nelson and tour manager David Anderson, along with Nelson's sister, Bobbie Nelson, and two drivers, were issued...
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When I was a kid, fruits like strawberries, cherries, kiwi etc were not very common. They used to be available in very few places and they used to be quite expensive. Today a lot of people has seen the potential of these things and have started growing them....
"Early in 2006, before the general Internet-using public was aware of what I began referring to—in editorials, blog entries, and SYS-CON’s Internet TV webcasts—as “The AJAX Moment,” there was a strong sense among industry insiders that AJAX-like approaches, if not...