The forests at the bottom of the city are full of mushrooms this season. We wanted to introduce this magical ingredient closely before we put a basket on our arms and started collecting mushrooms.
Delicious, poisonous, deadly, magic. Throughout history, many attributes have been attributed to mushrooms. Rightly. After all, a large number of people are poisoned by mushrooms every year. As is known, most of the sweet-looking mushrooms, reminiscent of the Smurfs’ village, are not edible, even highly poisonous. This has increased in recent years, thanks to interest in natural nutrition and foraging. So, before we come to the benefits of natural mushrooms, we should definitely point out that one must collect with a connoisseur. We would also like to remind you that many poisonous mushrooms are similar to edible mushrooms.
Doysun in the Spirit, Turkey’s cork forests professor at İğneada, I collected mushrooms with mikolog Jilber Barutçiyan. We discovered many kinds of mushrooms that we didn’t even guess as edible. We recommend that you take the road with an expert both for a more efficient mushroom hunting and to avoid poisoning. As chef’s said, “All mushrooms are edible. Only some may be your last meal! ”
