A Few Things to Consider Before Eating Wild Mushrooms
After a spate of recent poisonings, how to keep your inner forager in check
by Lindsay Abrams
Nov 13, 2012
2 minutes
Last Friday, two elderly nursing home residents in California died after eating soup made with wild mushrooms.
Just a few weeks before that, an entire Connecticut family was almost knocked out by a dish of wild mushrooms, onions, garlic, and green chili peppers. They were saved only by the timely administration of charcoal and an experimental drug.
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