Eastern Mushroom Growing

Asia has a long and rich tradition of mushroom cultivation and the mushrooms are beautiful and refined, as well as nutritionally and medically beneficial. In Japan, China and Korea, mushrooms such as eryngii, shiitake, shimeji, enoki and nameko are grown on a massive scale. These Asian or ‘exotic’ types of mushrooms are becoming more popular in the West, as supermarkets increasingly sell a range of mixed punnets, but these mushrooms can seem far removed from the mushrooms Europeans grew up eating.