Episode 115: Mushrooms

Duration: 00:57:18

Guests:

Nanae Watabe is a Japanese and Mexican mushroom enthusiast, spreading fungi to the culinary-minded people of Mexico City. She is fluent in the languages and flavors of Mexico, Japan, and Italy, and has been involved in such food-related projects as managing a ranch and owning a sushi burrito stand. Her book, Estado de Hongos, reflects on and describes all things mushroom-y.

Judith Noel Gagnon is a biologist and co-owner of the Mycoboutique in Montreal, Québec, the “general store of mushrooms.” The shop offers dried mushrooms, mushroom-growing kits, mushroom excursions, and hundreds of other products from art to books to fermentation equipment.

Annika Walsh is a master student in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. A transdisciplinary artist who was born in Chuzhou, China and adopted at 11 months of age by her family in Canada, Annika works with a wide variety of ingredients, materials, and collaborators to form her conceptual pieces.

Also mentioned:

• le Cercle des mycologues de Montréal (the Montreal Mycological Society)
• Anna Tsing’s article, “Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species”

Host/Producer: David Szanto
Music: Story Mode
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00:04:09
Nanae Watabe on the wild mushrooms of Mexico

00:23:13
Judith Noel Gagnon on running Montreal’s Mycoboutique

00:38:37
‘Stick This in Your Mouth!’ (the fungus edition)

00:51:38
the Food Questionnaire with Annika Walsh