This episode is part 4, or episode 38, and will look at some examples of my favourite artworks that depict or feature mushrooms…by artists including Ming dynasty Chinese artist Qiu Yang, Chinese-Canadian artist Xiaojing Yan, Beatrix Potter and Elsie Wakefield, Yayoi Kusama, Hine Mizushima, Wangechi Mutu and more. There will be a bit about the Game of Shrooms, the annual world-wide mushroom art N seek event created by Attaboy. There will even be a little bit of mushroom magic in film and music at the end with a note on the 2019 documentary film Fantastic Fungi and from the late Czech mushroom composer Vaclav Halek.
Read MoreEp37 - Mealtimes, Mental Health and Mindfulness with Karmen Perez-Pineda of Cats with a Heart - Pt3 of Mystic, Magic and Mealtime Mushrooms
Part 3 - Mealtimes, Mental Health and Mindfulness with Karmen Perez-Pineda of Cats with a Heart of a four-part series on Mushrooms - Mystic, Magic and Mealtime
Mushroom culinary customs from around the world, mushroom tips, health benefits, how Psylocibin mushrooms are being used medicinally and at some of the past and present female pioneers behind psychedelics and psychiatrics. Plus I will chat with Karmen Perez-Pineda the founder of Cats with a Heart about mushrooms and her amazing socially responsible initiative which aims to raise awareness and funds to end child exploitation in the fashion industry.
Ep36 - Mushrooms - Mystic, Magic and Mealtime - Pt 2 - Fungi Folklore
Fungi Folklore - Part 2 of a four-part series on Mushrooms - Mystic, Magic and Mealtime
This series is inspired by Karmen Perez-Pineda, Founder of Cats with a Heart who will be interviewed in Part 3
Pt2:
The etymology, symbolism, folklore, magical properties and culinary traditions of mushrooms - that’s mystic, magic and mealtime mushrooms
Image: Fungi: twenty species, including the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), death cap (Amanita phalloides) and Boletus and Agaricus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Ep35 - Mushrooms - Mystic, Magic and Mealtime - Pt 1 - Shamans and Shrooms
Part 1 - Shamans and Shrooms of a four-part series on Mushrooms - Mystic, Magic and Mealtime
This series is inspired by Karmen Perez-Pineda, Founder of Cats with a Heart who will be interviewed in Part 3
Pt1:
Brief intro into the series
Mushroom synopsis
Ethnomycology & Shamanism & Cave Art
Aboriginal Gwion Gwion, Australia
Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria
Pegtymel Petroglyphs in Far East Siberia in Russia
Mesoamerican society
María Sabina
Ep34 - Smy Thoughts - Racism and Racist Imagery in Food and Art
I am sharing and processing some of my thoughts and experiences of racism as a woman of colour.
Covering examples of racist imagery in food history and amazing representation, examples of racist imagery in art and amazing representation in art. Covering racial stereotypes, Ava DuVernay and the documentary 13th, Mixed Girl Meetup, Birth of a Nation, , fried chicken, watermelon, stereotypes, micro-aggressions, Sohla El-Waylly and Bon Appetit, MOFAD, Mona Chalabi, Mariya Russell, Kara Walker, Angela Davis and more.
Ep33 - Flour Power and Superb Herbs - Quarantine Catch-up with Aimée Furnival of Another Studio
In a special edition of Smy Goodness Podcast: Quarantine Catch-up we chat with Aimée Furnival of Another Studio, the London design studio specialising in Plant Gifts & Playful Products. Aimée featured in the Smy Goodness Podcast episode 5 Pancakes and Creativity which looked at the food history and food art relating to pancakes all whilst we chatted about creativity, similarities between cooking and design processes and how design affects the items that surround us in our kitchens and dining rooms and as we prepare and share our meals. In this episode we chat to Aimée about her thoughts on Covid-19 and how it may have affected her business and cookery practices. Have a listen!
Read MoreEp32 - Pomegranate memories with Freelance Writer and Journalist Sophie Jean-Louis Constantine
In this episode I chat with Freelance Writer and Journalist Sophie Jean-Louis Constantine about her novel, writing process and food memories. We covered all sorts of topics - from Persephone to process, koliva to kites and ratatouille to reviews! As Sophie mentions, the influence of pomegranates are akin to tentacles that have spread out across the world since our earliest times. You can find out loads more pomegranate food history and food art stories by listening to Smy Goodness Podcast Ep31 - Pomegranate - Superfood, Seeds, Symbolism and Stories.