In fact, as the authors of a recent Nutrition Today article noted, mushroomsâ nutrient and culinary characteristics suggest it may be time to re-evaluate food groupings and health benefits in the context of three separate food kingdoms: plants/ botany; animals/zoology and fungi/mycology.
Tate Modern today unveils the latest commission in The Unilever Series, Sunflower Seeds, by the renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The sculptural installation appears at first to be a vast, flat landscape of sunflower seed husks, covering the east end of the Turbine Hall.
AI WEIWEI, Sunflower Seeds (detail), 2010, lifesize sunflower seed made from porcelain, taken from the 100 million-seeds installation at Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London. Photo by Tate Photography. Courtesy the artist.