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One on OneMycologist Jan Borovička on mushrooms and where to find them
With mushroom season in full swing, our guest in this edition of One on One
is Jan Borovička, a leading member of the Czech Mycological Society, who
combines a very Czech hobby of mushroom picking with his profession of
geochemist at the Czech Academy of Sciences. How has the internet changed
mushroom picking? Why are mushrooms safe to eat even after Chernobyl and
Fukushima? And, most importantly, where are the best spots to find them?
These are some of issues we discussed with Jan Borovička, who says this
year’s mushroom-picking season did not start out that great. More
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A sixty-year-old pensioner is in hot water after some left-over bird-seed
he reportedly threw out in his back-yard sprouted producing a number of
fine marihuana plants. A Macaque monkey is safely back in its enclosure at
Olomouc zoo after repeatedly slipping out on his own private outings and,
what’s to be done about a couple of gay vultures? Find out more in
Magazine with Daniela Lazarová. More
Letter from PragueThe joys of collecting mushrooms and ticks
Every cloud has a silver lining, so they say. But the many clouds that have
constituted the Czech summer so far have a sort of golden-yellow hue for
me. That is the colour of the chanterelle mushroom or liška in Czech.
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Current AffairsRare black truffles uncovered in central Moravia
The truffle, often referred to as the king of all fungi, has long been
considered one of the world’s finest delicacies - found in five-star
restaurants around the world. In the Czech Republic the edible fungus is
extremely rare, but that is changing. The reason is due changes in
temperature and humidity: just recently samples of the rare fungus were
uncovered in Moravia.
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Thousands of Czechs are offering their couches to travelers within the
international CouchSurfing Project. Is that a puffball or a truffle? And,
the logo of the Czech police force is being used to help sell a variety of
articles from knickers to beer glasses. Find out more in Magazine with
Daniela Lazarova.
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Visitors to Prague will soon get another chance to view the Czech
coronation jewels. A 19-year old Czech girl has won the Czech speed beer
drinking contest. The first-ever specialized mushroom store is to open in
Prague. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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SoundCzechThey're springing up like mushrooms after the rain
Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech – Radio Prague’s Czech
language series in which you can learn idioms through song lyrics. Today,
we’ll be listening to a song by Czech rockers Kabát called “Kdo si
nechce hubu spálit”, which translates into English roughly as “If you
don’t want to get into trouble”. The phrase to listen out for is
“rostou nám tak jako houby po dešti”, which comes right at the
beginning of the song.
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Letter from PragueA Short Cut to Mushrooms
Back when I was in my early teens one of my favourite books was J.R.R.
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which I must have read at least a dozen times.
Along with more adventurous passages, one of my favourite chapters was
"A Short Cut to Mushrooms" - in which the hobbits make their way
across Farmer Maggot's fields and the greediness of hobbits' love of
mushrooms is described. That description, I've always felt, would also fit
well for mushroom lovers in the Czech Republic, including myself. Mushroom
picking here has a long tradition and is something of a national pastime.
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