The matsutake mushroom continues to be a highly sought delicacy,
especially in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cuisine. Matsutake Worlds
explores this mushroom through the lens of multi-species encounters
centered around the matsutake's notorious elusiveness. The mushroom's
success, the contributors of this volume argue, cannot be accounted for
by any one cultural, social, political, or economic process. Rather, the
matsutake mushroom has flourished as the result of a number of different
processes and dynamics, culminating in the culinary institution we know
today.