Illustration: Juliana Bonomo. Images: Getty Images Everyone and their dog is at it with the mushroom edibles these days. It’s not like you have to be a Timothy Leary or Hunter S. Thompson character anymore to show up to the festival with a trippy chocolate bar tucked among the perishables and the underwear. And that’s the thing […]
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What to Know About Different Countries’ Drug Scenes, According to Locals
Photo: Christian Filardo British drug culture is a few things: Ketamine served up at all times of the night; incessant, continent-beating cocaine use, and arguably quite shit weed. But there are other things, too – speed isn’t a huge taboo thing here, nor is nos, MDMA or psychedelics. Advertisement But you know what, meth isn’t at […]
Read MorePolice Officers Are Doing Ayahuasca Now
In March 2017, a terrorist drove a car into pedestrians in central London, killing four pedestrians and injuring countless others. He then stabbed a police officer to death before being shot dead by armed police, in what has come to be known as the 2017 Westminster attack. PC Paul Haylock was among the first on […]
Read Morecrispy potatoes with mushrooms
I like to think that I made a smashing impression on my Russian in-laws when I met them — at the time, I didn’t eat meat or, more importantly, smoked fish. I remain staunch in my dislike of beets. And shortly after we got married I started talking about quitting my day job to… blog […]
Read MoreMerlin Sheldrake Will Change the Way You See Mushrooms
Sheldrake is less interested in making the case for how we can use fungi than in demonstrating with a kind of unbounded wonder how intimately fungi are connected with all forms of life. These relationships are the central subject of Sheldrake’s book. Life on earth as we know it is rooted—or perhaps I should say […]
Read MoreA Really Great Polenta Finishes Off Strong
Recipe: Spicy Roasted Mushrooms With Polenta Incidentally (or maybe not), using flavored oils is another example of how I can, quite literally, see flavor happening. The best illustration for this is cilbir, a Turkish dish of poached eggs, served huddled in a bowl over garlic yogurt. To finish it off, simmering butter gets an infusion […]
Read MoreThis Senator Wants to Legalize Magic Mushrooms in Mexico
Mushrooms photo by Nathaniel Janowitz. Right image courtesy of Alejandra Lagunes. MEXICO CITY—When Mexican Senator Alejandra Lagunes was in her late 20s, she was living in a world she describes as “gray” with depression and anxiety. “I didn’t feel anything. I didn’t laugh, I didn’t cry,” she remembers now. She could barely get out of […]
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