Word: mushroomed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard students are also missing out on the thrilling sport of mushroom-hunting. Interest in mushrooming, or "mycology," has been sprouting up around campus especially in the FOP community...
...leader Kristin A. Bevington `01 says, "It would be cool if you were trying to get into witchcraft or something. I mean, don't witchcraft people hunt for herbs and mushrooms and stuff?" Notwithstanding our general ignorance concerning fungi, a secret culture of mushroom afficionados quietly exists in America, stalking the forest floor in search of these rare delicacies...
Hayden F. Hirschfeld `99, also a FOP leader, is a folklore and mythology concentrator writing his thesis on a mushroom. He explains that the very fact that people are even interested in mushrooms intrigues him. "This is a culture that is `fungaphobic' and most people believe that if you go out in the forest and eat a mushroom, you'll die," he notes, adding that "despite that, people are still into them...
...these mushroom-hunters seeking `shrooms for so-called recreational purposes? "Some people enjoy studying them, and some people enjoy eating them--not to get high but just to cook," Hirschfeld clarifies...
...Boston Mycological Club, the Oldest Amateur Mycological Club in North America, can help fungiphiles learn to grow their own yummy portabello and shitake `shrooms or get the more intrepid myco-hunter involved in local mushroom forays. Harvard students could benefit from a bit more savoir-faire. As June Beack `01 comments, "I think mushrooming would be a fun sport, what with the pigs and everything...