Dr. Mike Amaranthus on finding fungi, a new book, and always learning about mushrooms

Hungry for More : an Epicurean's Dilemma

Oh, the magical world of mushrooms and Dr. Mike Amaranthus helps us break it all down. I've interviewed him before (Episode 64), but in this interview, we really take a deeper dive into the importance of mushrooms, the medicinal ones and the psychedelic ones. Dr. Amaranthus wrote a new book, "Fry, Thrive, or Die," and it's a pocket guide on the 50 most common delicious, hallucinogenic, medicinal, and poisonous mushrooms of the western United States. He says he had a lot of fun writing the book, which is loaded with pictures (we edited some pictures in the interview as well), and he's hoping it sparks some excitement to get out in nature and find some fungi.