What is a mushroom? What do mushrooms mean? What do mushrooms do? What do we want from mushrooms? What do the mushrooms want? These are the questions the makers of Broccoli Magazine tackle in Mushroom People, one of the most popular titles we’ve ever stocked at Magalleria, and now we’ve got it back in again.
Mushroom People is a special edition, single-issue magazine about mushrooms that has rallied artists, writers and mycophiles from around the world to explore fungi fact and fantasy. Mushroom People collects specimens of all kinds: the strange and familiar, beautiful and ugly, toxic and healing, ephemeral and enduring.
Inside Mushroom People, folklorist, artist and writer Bethany van Rijswijk delves into the folklore of the magic mushroom, Leslie Kirchhoff and Yasmine Khatib create arrangements that persuade us that mushrooms are the new flowers, singer, writer and artist Claire L. Evans goes inside the trip report forum Erowid, Chinese medicine food expert, chef and registered dietitian Zoe Gong heals what ails us, illustrator Adrienne Kammerer paints a slug’s-eye-view, author and ‘mycological influencer’ William Padilla-Brown talks citizen mycology, journalist and podcaster Shruti Ravindran breaks down the neuroscience of tripping, and writer and musician Lio Min searches for counter-culture on the forest floor.
You’ll also get information about MycoAstrology, Mushroom Fashion Week, the search for a lost perfume, hacking a chat-shroom in the Wood Wide Web, glowing mushroom lamps, Mixtec transcendental gastronomy, a mushroom burial suit, and much more.
