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[beccaelizabeth]

I've been looking at a page on wild foods, and I am a bit worried about their standards.

It keeps saying things like 'edible' and then you scroll down and it mentions don't eat too much because of the cyanide.

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[ex_peasant441]

Ha ha.

Anyone eating a truly wild diet would eat a huge range of foods, so the risk of them being poisoned by too much of one thing is slim. Also most wild foods can be rendered safer by the correct cooking.

[beccaelizabeth]

cooking does seem like a very useful magic

[ex_peasant441]

Vital magic. It is what allows us to have such big brains. If we had to eat all our food raw we would need a much longer gut, and there wouldn't be the spare capacity in our bodies to have a large brain. Cooking and human intelligence evolved side by side.

[baronjanus]

"all mushrooms are edible; some mushrooms are only edible once"

[beccaelizabeth]

:-)