>>1880838I have a mycologist friend in brazil, she helped write one of the field guides she has a couple theories why we don't see that much in our culture (whereas any farmer's market in europe will have locally harvested fungii).
>natives driven off, europeans already had food safety never had to seek alternate means or indian knowledge so Mycophagia never really got into our cultureAlso
>natives had a very elaborate farming system which provided food for the whole yearBut her main feeling is that there is just a big unknow and we must research further. Pic related is from the fucking 70s
In comparison to europe
>people were always eating fungi and that cultural trait developed early on and was never shunnedBut I've found one resource of what you are saying, apparently people are trying to bring some of it back (and discovering new species in the process). I fucking hate my government.
>THE ETHNOMYCOLOGY OF THE SANAMA INDIANS >https://sci-hub.st/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3758915(most of the species described there have no record on literature about their edibility, they were simply cataloged)
>https://medium.com/social-environmental-stories/we-yanomami-have-presented-scientists-with-a-great-discovery-94697eec280d>a fungus used in basket making