This is about a sought-after white mushroom, prized in Japan for infusing dishes with nuances flavors, but it hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber... Interesting none the less.
thanks, reminded me of a quite funny old japanese show about how a family got one piece, and how prized it was, specially for the kid , who ends up eating it and not sharing a bit !
Sure, I think that's more a literal meaning, rather than the metaphorical sense the article was going for. As a metaphor, it's more common and way longer associated with king cotton.
In the area that I live there are plenty of eatable mushrooms but sadly none like that. I wonder how it actually tastes but wouldn't ever pay so much for a mushroom
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[ 847 ms ] story [ 945 ms ] threadI thought of the alloy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold#White_gold - and the wiki disambiguation page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Gold ) also misses the cotton reference.
It does exist abundantly, but seems mostly to be used in cotton producing countries ...
P.S. Great photos.