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'Paul Merrett shows us how to achieve the perfect warm mushroom salad and explains the science behind some of the spices used in a mushroom bhaji. He also reveals the secret to making the ultimate ...mushroom risotto and demonstrates how to cook mushrooms on toast perfectly.-- The programme - the last in the series - also takes a look at the true magic of mushrooms and how they were used by the Aztecs and the Romans. Find out what a 'mushroom flush' is and how unusual Japanese mushrooms such as shimeji, nameko and eyringi are being cultivated in Britain today. And what is the technology behind Quorn, a multi-million pound brand of mycoprotein produced from a fungus?'
'Paul Merrett shows us how to achieve the perfect warm mushroom salad and explains the science behind some of the spices used in a mushroom bhaji. He also reveals the secret to making the ultimate ...mushroom risotto and demonstrates how to cook mushrooms on toast perfectly.-- The programme - the last in the series - also takes a look at the true magic of mushrooms and how they were used by the Aztecs and the Romans. Find out what a 'mushroom flush' is and how unusual Japanese mushrooms such as shimeji, nameko and eyringi are being cultivated in Britain today. And what is the technology behind Quorn, a multi-million pound brand of mycoprotein produced from a fungus?'
| Series: | Ever wondered about food 3 |
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| First transmission date: | 2005 |
| Published: | 2005 |
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| Duration: | 00:29:11 |
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| Producer: | Gillian Scothern |
| Contributors: | Joan Alcock; Nigel Baddeley; Elizabeth Baquedado; Antonio Carluccio; Peter Collins; Tim Finnigan; Graham Hales; Patrick Harding; Kai Kyoichi; Victoria Lloyd-Davies; Paul Merrett; Martin Powell; Geoff Robson; Jurek Stolarczuk; Jacqueline Wharton |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/everwonderedfood/index.html |
| Keyword(s): | Truffles |
| Subject terms: | Cooking (Mushrooms); Cookery--Social aspects; Food--Great Britain--History; Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic |
| Production number: | BRD312597 |
| Videofinder number: | 7076 |
| Available to public: | no |
