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⏱ 5 min read 🔬 Recipe guide Homemade mushroom ravioli is one of those projects that looks fussy on paper but rewards you the moment you cut into the first pillow. The filling is essentially a concentrated mushroom duxelles bound...

⏱ 5 min read 🔬 Lykyn editorial A great mushroom ragout is what happens when you stop treating mushrooms as a side note and let them be the main event. The dish is essentially a slow-cooked, deeply seasoned mushroom stew,...

⏱ 5 min read 🔬 Lykyn editorial A mushroom in the tree is almost always a sign of internal wood decay, but not every tree mushroom means the tree is dying. Some species are aggressive parasites that attack living wood....

⏱ 5 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide Lawn mushrooms are usually a sign of healthy soil, not a problem. They appear after rain, often overnight, and most disappear within a few days on their own. The trouble is that some...

⏱ 5 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide Kikurage mushroom is the dark, rubbery, slightly translucent mushroom you find floating in a bowl of ramen or hot and sour soup. The Japanese name kikurage literally translates to tree jellyfish, and the...

⏱ 5 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide Japanese mushroom is a category, not a single species. Japan is one of the world's mushroom capitals, both in cultivation and in culinary tradition, and the country grows and uses more than a...

⏱ 7 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide Making mushroom tea at home is simpler than most people expect. The hardest part is patience: a proper mushroom tea is a slow extraction, not a quick steep. Once you understand the difference...

⏱ 4 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide Coral mushrooms look like a piece of underwater reef pulled out of the forest floor. They grow in branching clusters of finger-like or antler-like stalks in shades of white, cream, yellow, pink, purple,...

⏱ 4 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide You can technically eat many mushrooms raw, but the better question is whether you should. The honest answer for almost every species sold at a grocery store or grown at home is no,...