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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers.\xa0Tonight, we\u2019ll read a section of the book \u201cMushrooms: How to Grow Them\u201d called \u201cMushroom Growing in the Paris Caves\u201d, written by William Falconer and published in 1892.\xa0To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to\xa0snoozecast.com/plus.\n\nThe famous architecture of Paris was built using the limestone extracted from underneath the city. The resulting catacombs were also used to grow the Paris mushroom, a variety of the button variety.\xa0\n\nLegend has it that mushroom farming in these caves started when some deserters of Napoleon\u2019s army, along with their horses, discovered that mushrooms naturally flourished on the mixture of limestone and horse manure within.\xa0\n\n\u2014 read by 'V' \u2014\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices