Wild edible plants (video, ten part series)

Wow. Xlent add-on. And the video quality of the mp4’s it makes is much, much better than watching things on Utube.

I should be able to capture all ten and they will easily fit on one DVD.

Good to have them so I can get to them if I’m offline...

21 posted on 10/02/2012 5:02:58 PM PDT by djf (Political Science: Conservatives = govern-ment. Liberals = givin-me-it.)

Please indulge my little mushroom story: Our grandmother lived on a five-acre plot on the edge of the city. She and gramps were pretty much self-sufficient there. She was a master at making do with what she had. The woodstove in the kitchen was forever cooking something.

One of the delights of her life was mushroom foraging. She'd be gone a whole day, harvesting from her favorite haunts and bring home baskets and baskets of mushrooms.

As fate would have it, she was in her late 80s, lying on her death bed, in hospital, of stomach cancer. When the end was near, we were summoned to be with her. When I arrived, her sons and daughters [she had 11 children] were crowdwed around the bed. I recall this day so well, I was in my late teens then, and a lull in the conversation of sharing memories and good times, and in an effort to keep her mind off her pain. I piped up and said, "Gram, I'll always remember the delicious pot of mushrooms you'd make. I don't think any of us really were taught which mushrooms to pick were the *good* ones" How could you tell?*

She replied: *I didn't.*

Well! The look of horror and disbelief on the faces surrounding her bedside was almost funny. Most of us did laugh....but she quickly recovered by saying....when you cook wild mushrooms, always cook them with a real silver dollar in the pot. If the silver coin turns black...throw them out.

I always wondered why she kept a silver dollar on the stove shelf. Heh.

22 posted on 10/02/2012 11:54:47 PM PDT by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)

Very interesting, I’ve never heard of tarnishing silver being an indicator of a bad mushroom.

23 posted on 10/03/2012 1:14:27 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (With (R)epublicans like these, who needs (D)emocrats?)

Guess it's a well-documented Old Wive's Tale:

**The old wives' tale that silver—a coin or spoon—will blacken if placed in a pot along with toxic mushrooms is true for only some varieties. The deadliest mushrooms do not tarnish silver**

24 posted on 10/03/2012 1:54:26 PM PDT by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)

moon flowers...they are everywhere here 77871 and they are
one of the most poisonous and most hallucagenic too

25 posted on 10/03/2012 3:51:03 PM PDT by freedommom

moon flowers...they are everywhere here 77871 and they are
one of the most poisonous and most hallucagenic too

26 posted on 10/03/2012 3:51:14 PM PDT by freedommom

Well, today's paper had a story about a fam that got sick from eating mushrooms last week that were poisonous. :(

http://www.courant.com/health/connecticut/hc-mushroom-sick-20121016,0,4131181.story

27 posted on 10/17/2012 8:09:21 AM PDT by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)

I read that story yesterday. Those people are lucky a little sick is all it cost them.

This story just reinforces my policy of studiously avoiding wild fungi.

28 posted on 10/17/2012 8:17:53 AM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (With (R)epublicans like these, who needs (D)emocrats?)

I hear ya! :)

She was lucky the doc & hosp were willing to try the experimental drug, N-Acetylcysteine.

So often these-type horror stories pop-up and they always seem to involve a fam from a third world country.

29 posted on 10/17/2012 1:03:48 PM PDT by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)

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