🍄🟫🍄🍄🟫🍄 HOORAY FOR MUSHROOM DAY!! 🍄🟫🍄🍄🟫🍄
Mushrooms, amazing mushrooms—wow, I LOVE mushrooms so much! As you can see here from the many ‘shroom beauty shots below (that I found on my phone to upload here, lol). I’m also lucky to live directly across the street from the year-round Park Slope Down to Earth Farmers Market , every Sunday from 9am–2pm (and where I took most of the more unusual and interesting-looking mushroom shots in the slideshow below…). It’s a wonderful place for foodies to discover new vegetable and fruit varieties from local farmers, as well as interesting artisanal items…
The innovative Shroomeats products you see in the photo carousel were samples I nabbed at what turned out to be the very LAST Natural Products Expo East that took place in Philadelphia in the Fall of 2023. I enjoyed trying them out in a range of dishes as a meat substitute—nice texture, nutritious, satisfying, and filling. My only wish would be that they also come out with a product line with more palpable “mushroomy” flavors in the Shroomeats for us true ‘shroom lovers—vs. having an apparent appeal-to-everybody approach which ends up tasting more neutral than boldly mushroomy. Fine if you’re going for the ‘blank canvas’ approach but isnt that what tofu’s for?
TFG TIP: To impart intense mushroom flavor into dishes, I often rinse and rehydrate dried mushrooms (like those you also see in the packages in my photo lineup), or use them to make intensely opaque mushroom broths.
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Mushrooms show up in every food culture the world over—known not only for their earthy, elegant, and often ethereal aromatic and flavor profiles, but also for their adaptogenic healing properties, or even their power to transcend states of consciousness and awareness…
Indeed, mushrooms are magical in myriad ways.
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A SWEET SIMBA-inspired SIDENOTE:
My absolute fave commercial on network TV right now (which is an oxymoron for me, since commercials are often intrusive—except for this ADORABLE one!)… features the CUTEST little mushroom character ever! He / she / (they?) is a silent, animated ambassador for Ryze Mushroom Coffee, who happens to resemble—in my opinion—my sweet, adorable ginger boy kitty, aka Simba Bimba …
Is it just me, or do you see the resemblance too? 😆 😆
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Here are few other dates and events related to the Black Panther Party’s Timeline:
September 17, 1968. The Black Panther Party announced their intention to begin the Free Breakfast for Children Program on This program, which provided free meals to children before school, became one of the Party’s most well-known and impactful community service initiatives, addressing food insecurity and highlighting systemic inequalities in education and nutrition
October 15, 1966
The Black Panther Party was founded and the Ten-Point Program was written. The Ten-Point Program was the party's platform and was described as a combination of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
JANUARY 20TH 1969
The Oakland chapter of the Black Panther Party started the first free breakfast program for children.
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1982
The Black Panther Party officially dissolved.
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