Matsutake Worlds

<p> The matsutake mushroom continues to be a highly sought delicacy especially in Chinese Japanese and Korean cuisine. <em>Matsutake Worlds</em> explores this mushroom through the lens of multi-species encounters centered around the matsutake's notorious elusiveness. The mushroom's success the contributors of this volume argue cannot be accounted for by any one cultural social political or economic process. Rather the matsutake mushroom has flourished as the result of a number of different processes and dynamics culminating in the culinary institution we know today.</p>