PODCAST: Mushroom Hunting
Episode 3 sees Filling the Sink head into the woods with a wicker basket in search of mushrooms
Filling the Sink is filling its basket with rovellons, camagrocs and trompetes de la mort as we go foraging for mushrooms. Press play below to listen, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify.
In episode 3 of Filling the Sink, full-time journalist and part-time mushroom hunter Alan Ruiz Terol heads into the woods with his guide Aniol on a quest to find the tastiest, most unusually-named mushrooms in Catalonia.
Forager Brian Russell reveals why, unlike most, he's happy to let people know his favorite mushroom picking spots.
Cristina Tomàs White and Guifré Jordan join Lorcan Doherty to discuss the rural-urban divide over mushrooms, how to cook them once you've found them, and some of the weird and wonderful names that the Catalan language has for the various species.
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