chapotraphouse

i learned about huitlacoche in a plant disease class like a decade ago when learning about fungal disease cycles. still haven't had the opportunity to try it, but i would.

even ignoring the ethics, its far less weird, biologically, than feeding corn to ruminants and eating the products of that. it's using a living corn stalk as a substrate to cultivate fungal fruiting bodies. fungus are very efficient at turning complex structures into simple bioavailable nutrients.

you would know this instinctively if you had ҽαƚҽɳ ƚԋҽ ƚҽōɳαɳāƈαƚʅ αɳԃ ƚαʂƚҽԃ ιƚʂ ɱყʂƚҽɾιҽʂ