Question
In continental Europe, gathering wild mushrooms is a popular pastime and
knowledge of types and their culinary virtues is widespread. In Britain few
people can tell one mushroom from another. Why? Surely there was a time when
Britain's rural population ate anything edible. Has mushroom lore simply been
lost?
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