Matsutake Worlds

Download or read book Matsutake Worlds written by Lieba Faier and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The matsutake mushroom continues to be a highly sought delicacy, especially in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cuisine. Matsutake Worlds explores this mushroom through the lens of multi-species encounters centered around the matsutake’s notorious elusiveness. The mushroom’s success, the contributors of this volume argue, cannot be accounted for by any one cultural, social, political, or economic process. Rather, the matsutake mushroom has flourished as the result of a number of different processes and dynamics, culminating in the culinary institution we know today.