White Gold (2015)(story.californiasunday.com)

26 pointsby wallflower8 years ago9 comments

story.californiasunday.com

White Gold (2015)

https://story.californiasunday.com/mushroom-hunters-oregon-tokyo

9 comments

mchahn8 years ago

Why isn't something so valuable farmed? I have seen great mushroom farms in abandoned tunnels in Pennsylvania.

P.S. Great photos.

yongjik8 years ago

It's not for lack of trying. Whoever finds out how to farm these mushrooms will be filthy rich.

mc328 years ago

This is about a sought-after white mushroom, prized in Japan for infusing dishes with nuances flavors, but it hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber... Interesting none the less.

kqr8 years ago

Also used for rhodiated or palladiated gold-as-in-the-element-aurum.

mc328 years ago

Sure, I think that's more a literal meaning, rather than the metaphorical sense the article was going for. As a metaphor, it's more common and way longer associated with king cotton.

ableal8 years ago

> hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber

I thought of the alloy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold#White_gold - and the wiki disambiguation page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Gold ) also misses the cotton reference.

It does exist abundantly, but seems mostly to be used in cotton producing countries ...

jasonkostempski8 years ago

I thought it was going to be about cocain.

sudouser8 years ago

thanks, reminded me of a quite funny old japanese show about how a family got one piece, and how prized it was, specially for the kid , who ends up eating it and not sharing a bit !

nicheasta8 years ago

In the area that I live there are plenty of eatable mushrooms but sadly none like that. I wonder how it actually tastes but wouldn't ever pay so much for a mushroom