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The fall is mushroom season In France: market stalls start overflowing with all different kinds. But there are many more kinds of mushrooms than the handful that are edible. Some are poisonous-- even deadly. Others are hallucinogenic. Sarah Elzas went looking for mushrooms with a specialist and brings us this story.
Keywords: Europe, France, Paris, mushroom, fungus, food, forest
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The fall is mushroom season In France: market stalls start overflowing with all different kinds. But there are many more kinds of mushrooms than the handful that are edible. Some are poisonous-- even deadly. Others are hallucinogenic. Sarah Elzas went looking for mushrooms with a specialist and brings us this story. Keywords: Europe, France, Paris, mushroom, fungus, food, forest
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Produced for Network Europe (first aired 25/10/08)
Transcript
AMBI footsteps in leaves
Duane Peres is out looking for mushrooms on a cold fall morning in the Villefermoi forest, about sixty kilometers south of Paris.
Peres: Villefernoi- you find absolutely everything here. It?s the best spot in the region for mushrooms. Here?s a little Copernus [fade under]
Peres is originally from New Orleans. Over the thirty years he?s been living in France, he?s become a mushroom specialist?or a mycologist.
After years of observation, he?s able to identify almost any mushroom he comes across.
Peres: What do we have here? What in the world could this be? [fade under]
He IDs them by looking, of course. But also by smelling. Some of the small ones can only be identified under a microscope.
Peres is here to observe. But most people are out looking for lunch? this forest is known for having cepes,-- or porchini--mushrooms. We aren?t finding any...
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