Maria Pinto
presenting on Dispatches from the African Diaspor(e)a
This lecture will be an ethnomycological expedition from West Africa to the Caribbean to the United States, in which we'll discuss traditional uses of and attitudes towards mushrooms, from myths, to recipes, to fungal fruiting bodies as sustainable food sources in these regions.
Starting from her own experience adapting dishes from her native Jamaica to reflect what grows where she resides in the Northeastern US, writer and educator Maria Pinto will show us what she's learned about how mycophilia has traveled from one continent to another.
Maria Pinto is a Boston-area writer, mushroom enthusiast, and educator. She teaches for the literary non-profit GrubStreet, reads fiction for The Drum and Peripheries Journal, and has been awarded fellowships by the Vermont Studio Center, The Writers' Room of Boston, The Mastheads, and Garret on the Green. Her work has appeared in publications like Frigg, Necessary Fiction, and Cleaver. She sings loud whenever she passes under a bridge, and, when the season's right, you can find her filling her skillet and camera roll with fungal fruiting bodies.
Project links for the 6:30 PM - 7 PM virtual foray:
2021 WMS Virtual Foray
All WMS iNaturalist Projects
Mushroom Observer
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Starting from her own experience adapting dishes from her native Jamaica to reflect what grows where she resides in the Northeastern US, writer and educator Maria Pinto will show us what she's learned about how mycophilia has traveled from one continent to another.
Maria Pinto is a Boston-area writer, mushroom enthusiast, and educator. She teaches for the literary non-profit GrubStreet, reads fiction for The Drum and Peripheries Journal, and has been awarded fellowships by the Vermont Studio Center, The Writers' Room of Boston, The Mastheads, and Garret on the Green. Her work has appeared in publications like Frigg, Necessary Fiction, and Cleaver. She sings loud whenever she passes under a bridge, and, when the season's right, you can find her filling her skillet and camera roll with fungal fruiting bodies.
Project links for the 6:30 PM - 7 PM virtual foray:
2021 WMS Virtual Foray
All WMS iNaturalist Projects
Mushroom Observer
.
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