sandwich. So I made one with portobello mushrooms. Portobello mushrooms are really meaty, and it's absolutely delicious. So that would be a way if, let's say, you are becoming kosher and you now cannot have that, yeah, that's one.
So mushrooms are often used-- for most people, they're used in like pizza or pasta or something like a very narrow focus. People mostly focus on portobello and like cremini type mushrooms. Maybe shiitake. And shiitake is a good mushroom.
When Thampy and I came here, I think Suneil will attest to this-- by the time we had Suneil, he was the first Indian in all of the Portola Valley schools, which is unbelievable. You see him sitting there.
Let me tell you about an ingredient that's going to go wild. Remember how portobello mushrooms were all the rage for vegetarians? Just wait until cactus petals start being sold clean.
Bruno, to understand somebody, I always think you have to start with where they started and the the early context that they grew up in. And we were just talking before we started recording about Porto . I'm on a journey to understand why you are the way that you are cuz you're such an anomaly on the pitch. And your your career, when I track the journey of where you've come from and how you continually were promoted and pushed forward at a very
The other example, and here is where I think the most opportunity exists for this kind of social change, and this is on the level of location and neighborhoods and local governments. So in the late '80s in Porto Alegre in Brazil, a city that had had terrible growing pains. It's gone from two hundred thousand people to two million people in a short amount of time and they had these vast shanty towns and favelas without running water
And one of the things I love to do with my kids is we go down to-- we've got a local mushroom farm down here that grows button mushrooms and portobello mushrooms. And we take the trailer down, pick up the spent substrate from the farm, bring it back, lay it out under our trees,
But it was work, and it got me over the hump. And then I happened to write a novel called "Portofino," which, very fortunately for me, got some really great reviews. And got published all over the world, and gave me permission to continue to be a writer.
One studied at Davis, doing sensory science. But they found this tiny little jewel of a vineyard in Portola Valley, and make-- Really. Yeah and right by the open space.
You're new to kosher, you can't mix milk and meat together in the same dish, so you cannot have a Philly cheesesteak sandwich. So I made one with portobello mushrooms. Portobello mushrooms are really meaty, and it's absolutely delicious.
I don't know, I haven't looked at the goddamn things in 30 years. And then I'm six weeks in Larry Tesler's garage in Portola Valley looking through all of this stuff. In any case, the book is based almost entirely on first person original primary source research.
Sam is a successful movie producer in Hollywood whom I worked with when I was directing movies in the 1980s. Although I quit the movie business in the early 1990s after I wrote "Portofino" and it was published, thus offering me a passport to a little artistic satisfaction and vindication, Sam and I are still close friends.
They follow the river, occasionally climbing above it onto cold mesas or wandering off into the open desert in a bid to avoid the skeleton sprawl of emptied towns. Guardie choppers buzz up and down the river like swarms of angry yellowjackets, hunting for porto -pumpers and wildcat diversions. They rush overhead in a wash of beaten air and gleaming National Guard logos.
the ice age. And another was astronomy, uh and another really important breakthrough evidenced by by the ancient maps, but particularly a category of maps called the Portolanos, is accurate relative longitudes. This is the Orontius Finaeus map. It shows Antarctica uh right there.
He was shy and friendly and had loose, complicated handwriting, like the bouncing string of a kite. "Sure," I said, not knowing then that he lived in Portola Valley 20 minutes away. He seemed to me sloppy, too relaxed, shambolic.
And he left us just about a year ago. But I was able to spend a bunch of time with him in his retreat up in Portola Valley. And he told me the story of how, as he attempted to establish credibility within this insanely engineering driven
It tastes just like that. Those are always a go to as well, especially portobellos.
asked. Where is that--where is that young man who asked me about a banana phone? This is the banana phone. It's on a special velvet cushion on a plinth. We have a lot of time to our phone. We bought it in Woolworths on Portobello Road right when we began, which is our office was just on the other road. We needed a phone in the office. We thought it would be hilarious to have one of fruit. And there it is. It's real. It still
So I'm hoping-- there is an organization now called the International Wineries for Climate Action, another organization called The Porto Protocol.
Like if you think about Brazil in some sense, parts of Brazil changed a lot at a very local level, Porto Alegre,
and then those things scaled up to a national level, and people took the model that worked in Porto Alegre, and then they tried to expand it in other places.
it's so hard to keep all these things in your head, but I know about 20 good places. Now there's always Porto 's --
Well, I passed up a date. I did take the opportunity to peek in the Porto pharmacy disguised as a Marc Jacobs
So I wanted to quickly touch on some of the health benefits of them. The two most commonly grown mushrooms in the world are the agaricus bisporus, which is the white button, portobello, swiss brown, cremini mushroom. All those mushrooms are the same species.
And here's examples of products that we do, like mushroom coffee, mushroom chocolate, lattes, wellness tonics. And one of the reasons why we do this is that mushrooms, the healthy mushrooms, don't taste anything like portobello. They actually taste very bitter.
No, no, no. I honestly-- I do love mushrooms, like portobellos, cremini, the whole-- We get off the stage, and we drink LaCroix.
It's over. So all those mushrooms that-- the supermarket mushrooms that are always there, like shiitakes, criminis, portobellos.
So in Brazil, if you want to buy mushrooms, you must buy champignon, portobello,
corners of the building where the tents had been destroyed, where there was gonna be merchandise and concessions and Portolets and all that sort of stuff. And on game day, we had only