A Prague based website extolled the fervour for mushrooms in the Czech Republic.
“Only in The Czech Republic is mushroom-picking considered a national sport. Czech wisdom has it that, while all mushrooms are edible, some are only edible once. I believe that you have to succeed at mushroom-picking. I walked through a forest for five hours and I found one mushroom. A Czech expert is able to find enough mushrooms on a single day’s jaunt to be dried to last the year. You know that you’re in a Czech house when there are big glass jars, one for each mushroom type, dominating the kitchen shelves.”
