Comments on: Book review – The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilisation/2018/05/17/book-review-the-rise-of-yeast-how-the-sugar-fungus-shaped-civilisation/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 26 May 2023 11:25:07 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/17/book-review-the-rise-of-yeast-how-the-sugar-fungus-shaped-civilisation/comment-page-1/#comment-13761Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:19:11 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1725#comment-13761[…] another good example of a recent book that plays into this. Mycologist Nicholas Money, whose book The Rise of Yeast I reviewed last year, has also tapped into this vat with his books Mushroom and Mushrooms. […]

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]]>By: Book review – Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/17/book-review-the-rise-of-yeast-how-the-sugar-fungus-shaped-civilisation/comment-page-1/#comment-13361Fri, 02 Oct 2020 14:09:41 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1725#comment-13361[…] so-called mycorrhizal fungi. Fungi also have many practical applications, from yeasts providing us bread and beer to mycoremediation (cleaning up waste with fungi) and new building materials. Sheldrake pays […]

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]]>By: Book review – Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/17/book-review-the-rise-of-yeast-how-the-sugar-fungus-shaped-civilisation/comment-page-1/#comment-6481Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:23:14 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1725#comment-6481[…] another good example of a recent book that plays into this. Mycologist Nicholas Money, whose book The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilisation I reviewed last year, has also tapped into this vat with his books Mushroom and Mushrooms: A […]

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]]>By: Book review – Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/17/book-review-the-rise-of-yeast-how-the-sugar-fungus-shaped-civilisation/comment-page-1/#comment-5901Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:04:29 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1725#comment-5901[…] a prime suspect in obesity and diabetes. Microbes and fermentation (on which more in my review of The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilisation) play a role in the production of cheese, beer, and wine. We even get a crash course on the […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/17/book-review-the-rise-of-yeast-how-the-sugar-fungus-shaped-civilisation/comment-page-1/#comment-3109Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:34:01 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1725#comment-3109[…] we’re not the only ones who love sugar. I have touched on part of this story in my review of The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilisation, as this fungus also feeds on sugar and in the process produces alcohol, likely as a strategy to […]

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]]>By: Book review – Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/17/book-review-the-rise-of-yeast-how-the-sugar-fungus-shaped-civilisation/comment-page-1/#comment-768Mon, 11 Jun 2018 23:35:13 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1725#comment-768[…] a prime suspect in obesity and diabetes. Microbes and fermentation (on which more in my review of The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilisation) play a role the production of cheese, beer, and wine. We even get a crash course on the evolution […]

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