Nmsu Students To Host Free Mushroom-cooking Demonstration April 15

Students studying fungal biology astatine New Mexico State University will big a free mushroom-cooking objection and chat arsenic portion of an effort to demystify nan immense world of edible mushrooms.

The arena is unfastened to nan nationalist and will return spot from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, April 15, successful nan Skeen Hall rotunda connected NMSU’s Las Cruces campus.

The arena is simply a collaboration betwixt a fungal biology people taught by Soum Sanogo, professor of fungal works pathology, nan Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Weed Science, nan School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management, and nan Center of Excellence successful Sustainable Food and Agricultural Systems – each portion of nan College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.

The arena will see a cooking objection led by cook Danielle Young of NMSU’s School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management. Young will navigator respective dishes featuring mushrooms donated by Ximena Zamacona, proprietor of Full Circle Mushrooms successful La Mesa, New Mexico.

Students successful Sanogo’s people will past speak astir nan nutritional and medicinal benefits of mushrooms. Sanogo has held this arena since 2013 arsenic portion of an experiential learning module called nan “Fungi: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.”

For much accusation astir nan event, interaction Sanogo astatine ssanogo@nmsu.edu.

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CUTLINE: New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences will big a mushroom-cooking objection April 15. The free arena is unfastened to nan public. (Courtesy photo)