The July 10, 2009, edition of Science Magazine features a review of The World of Soy. Du Bois, Tan, and Mintz have done an excellent job combining a series of […]
Category: food
Fungi
The new issue of Fungi magazine enthusiastically recommends Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field-to-Kitchen Guide. Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States should be required […]
Alone in the Woods by Joe McFarland
It’s all over for the majority of wild mushroom hunters in Illinois. That’s because the only wild mushroom most people trust and recognize—the morel—has now faded from the forests of […]
The Sun-Times recommends Mushrooms
The Chicago Sun-Times suggests that you attend the launch party for Joe McFarland and Gregory Mueller’s new book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States at the Chicago Botanic […]
Summer is Coming by Joe McFarland
You get about a month. That’s as long as morel mushroom season lasts wherever you live in Illinois, starting from the very first morel somebody shouts they’ve found—the first morel […]
Mushroom hunting with Joe McFarland
Claudette Roulo went mushroom hunting with Joe McFarland, co-author of Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States. […]
It’s Morel Season by Joe McFarland
It’s finally morel mushroom season in southern Illinois where I live, which means, for these few weeks, I will be everybody’s total best friend. By August, I will be that […]
First Morel by Jennifer Reichlin
I was clearing a brush pile in my yard a few days ago when I spotted–surely that’s a morel? I’d never seen one in person. I ran inside to grab […]
Mushroom Mania
Our gorgeous new guide to wild mushrooms in Illinois is finally here, just in time for high mushroom season. Champaign Taste features it in today’s post, and one of the […]
The TLS on the joy of soy
The World of Soy, edited by Christine M. Du Bois, Chee-Beng Tan, and Sidney Mintz, is the subject of a long and favorable review in the new issue of The Times Literary […]
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The p in pb&j
Andrew Smith, author of the University of Illinois Press book Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea, is quoted in today’s Chicago Tribune on the economics of American kids’ favorite […]