Welcome to our series sharing Food Holidays: September 2022: National Mushroom Month. I don’t know about you but I don’t care for Mushrooms and neither does Charlie. While David and his mom love Fried Mushrooms. As well as Mushrooms on Pizza and Hamburgers. Would you like to join them for dinner and you can celebrate the Mushroom with them?
National Mushroom Month
Is there anything they don’t make better than Mushrooms? Well, there are those who may not appreciate their finer qualities of taste and texture, but those people just don’t know what’s good.
Whether grilled with Butter and set atop a Hamburger or stuffed with Cheese and breading and slow cooked for ultimate flavor, Mushrooms have a place on every table.
National Mushroom Month was created to raise awareness not just of their culinary uses, but of the important role they play in many industries, some of them quite surprising.
History of National Mushroom Month
To understand the history of National Mushroom Month, one should perhaps understand exactly what a Mushroom is. When most people think of a Mushroom, they’re either thinking of the White Button Mushrooms commonly used in cuisine, or the red topped, white speckled Mushrooms that are taken recreationally.
What we think of as the Mushroom isn’t actually the Mushroom, instead, it is the fruiting body which you could just think of it as the fruit of a fungus found in the ground. The Mushrooms fruiting body is formed so that it can spread its spores and reproduce, but it just so happens that certain members of this family are absolutely delicious. Mushrooms have an incredible variety of uses that don’t stop in the kitchen.
While high in Vitamin D, Mushrooms are an important resource for processing calcium and making strong bones. Mushrooms also have medicinal properties. Some Mushrooms are used for dyeing wool, with surprisingly vibrant colors available in their spectrum. There also Mushrooms that are used for medicinal purposes, with certain varieties exhibiting anti-Cancer properties.
Additionally, Mushrooms have been used for cleaning up human messes, as they are exceptionally good at pulling radiation out of the ground. National Mushroom Month seeks to raise awareness about these incredible fungi and all they do for us.
How To Celebrate National Mushroom Month
National Mushroom Month starts with expanding your culinary pallet by picking up varieties of Mushroom you may never have tried before. Just don’t go collecting Mushrooms in the wild on your own ask for help because some Mushrooms can be poisonous.
Mushrooms may be only be enjoyed once in a lifetime because they’re poisonous, and you’ll die. Thankfully there are abundant varieties of Mushrooms available through the Grocery Stores that are safe to eat.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
