by Risë’s Pieces | Risë's Pieces
Truffle sniffing dogs and pigs are used to find the European white truffle in the wild. It is ranked as one of the most expensive mushrooms in the world at $3,600 per pound. I would love to know what the European white truffle tastes like, but at such a price, I’m not...
by Risë’s Pieces | Risë's Pieces
Typically, people either love them or think they’re disgusting. If you’ve ever gone mushroom hunting and seen edible ones in the wild, it does make you second guess their virtues. Mushrooms are a type of fungi after all and fungi is a whole category of organisms that...
by Risë’s Pieces | Risë's Pieces
Bloating. Belching. Gassy. Gastrointestinal (GI) discomfort. These are common enough symptoms that can potentially have different causes, including a poorly functioning gallbladder. Last month, we learned that bile is made by the liver, then stored in and released by...
by Risë’s Pieces | Risë's Pieces
Cholecystectomies are one of the most common surgeries performed in the United States with a reported 600,000 done each year. What’s a cholecystectomy? It’s surgical removal of the gallbladder. Surgeries doubled in the 90s when laparoscopic cholecystectomy was...
by Risë’s Pieces | Risë's Pieces
The coelacanth fish fossil was considered veritable proof of the evolutionary theory. It appeared as the missing link between fish and tetrapods with its part-fin-part-foot flipper. The coelacanth was believed by some to have been extinct for 65 million years until...
