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Sam Gugino
Issue: May 31, 2001

May 31st, 2001 Mushrooming Once -- exotic wild fungi are now grown and sold all over By Sam Gugino John Gottfried's mushroom epiphany occurred in 1971, in Japan, when he was "knocked out" by the taste of the legendary matsutake.

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