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The Cultivation of Mushrooms

Appears in
The Mushroom Cookbook

By Michael Hyams and Liz O'Keefe

Published 2017

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Cultivated mushrooms are farmed, rather than being foraged where they grow wild in forests and fields. They are grown in controlled environments like large mushroom factories, so that a constant and higher volume of mushrooms can be produced for our ever-eager palates.
Before mass production of mushrooms began around about the 1900s, mushrooms were still thought of as something unusual and sought-after, with only a few people able to locate and enjoy them. Mushroom cultivation brought mushrooms to the masses.

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