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.
Image caption The work has been purchased for an undisclosed figure. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's sunflower seeds - a work made up of 10 tonnes of porcelain seed replicas-has been bought by Tate Modern. The London gallery has acquired around eight million of the 100 million porcelain reproductions.