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Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 17, 2024
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Illustration from One Thousand American Fungi, By Charles McIlvane (1900_)

In 1885, while riding horseback through West Virginia's forests, Civil War veteran Charles McIlvaine had an idea that would either kill him or revolutionize American cooking – he decided to start eating wild mushrooms. His resulting book, One Thousand American Fungi reads like a m…

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