Neither plant nor animal, mushrooms are classified as fungi. The main body is subterranean, or lives on dead trees and living tree roots, and can vary in size from a few inches to several miles wide. When they absorb a large amount of water, they can grow amazingly fast. Their fruits sprout out of the ground overnight. The effects of eating mushrooms makes hunting them a constant gamble, even for those who know what they're doing. Before there were field guides, foraging festivals, and mushroom experts, mushrooms were often considered a strange and mystical occurrence. For instance, some mushrooms emit bioluminescence, called Foxfire, or “living light.” Before Anglo-Saxon Britain understood this, they derided mushrooms as nothing more than “toadstools.” But we digress. Earthy and pungent, yet strangely sweet—that is Mushroom. Made proudly in the European tradition in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
