New Artica Writings 2023 essay out now: Mushrooms in the Ice Desert
Fjellridderhatt -Lepista multiforme, Foto Reidun Braathen
We are very pleased to share the first essay of Artica Writings 2023: Mushrooms in the Ice Desert: A Mycological-Culinary Journey to Svalbard by Reidun Braathen and Even W. Hanssen (Translated from Norwegian by Olivia Lasky)
“Little did Baltazar Mathias Keilhau know that in September 1827, he would make history when he collected his first mushrooms on Stans Foreland – what has since become known as Edgeøya (English: Edge Island). This was the beginning of human knowledge of and familiarity with fungi in the Svalbard archipelago.”
This is the first in a series of four newly commissioned essays looking at food on Svalbard. Each essay is available in English and Norwegian here.