mycophile

An accomplished painter, polymath, and mycophile, he identified one species of mushroom.

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While not quite a match in pithy summary to Basho, the Japanese mycophile and haiku maker, Bone deploys the precise, uncommon vocabulary of the best naturalists.

Mushrooms are an extremely rich source of vitamin D. And any overweight mycophile (the mountain man plainly wasn’t bothered by his size) can lose pounds almost painlessly by substituting mushrooms for meat.

Remember, however, that the modernist composer and intrepid mycophile John Cage once economized by subsisting solely on wild mushrooms, a brief experiment that ended in the hospital, with Cage suffering from a case of malnutrition.

Now I have nibbled the sacred mushroom of Mexico (that was a snack Ill be a long time forgetting) and Ive sucked up my share of buttons with steak, but I am no mycophile and I wouldnt know an Agaricus from an asparagus.

Setting aside that high street favourite the mushroom bhaji, Indian cuisine Brit-style doesn't often have much to offer the mycophile.