Get Smutty: Huitlacoche Workshop With Central Texas Mycological Society

You know, huitlacoche has been criminally outshone by her sister nixtamalization in the ancient corn variations competition. It’s really unfair that Nixta gets all the hoopla when Huitla, her more goth and grungy counterpart, is just as cool. Jokes aside, huitlacoche is a mushroom-like fungus that grows on corn, turning it black and giving it an umami taste unlike any corn you’ve known. Central Texas Mycology will teach you how to achieve this Mexican delicacy by timing the inoculation of your corn and learning how to harvest its fruits correctly. Every participant will take home a spore syringe and a bloody butcher corn seed (the dark red ones, of course). – Lina Fisher