This was the scene this morning in a village in Northern Thailand, wild mushrooms being boiled in a pot with Thai eggplant leaves. The leaves help reduce the bitter taste of these wild mushrooms. Because of recent rain there is an abundance of these lovely mushrooms in the forests around here. Many of the locals set out on motorcycles to pick these mushrooms. They eat a lot of natural healthy food around here, straight from nature, totally organic and free from chemicals. The people in this village seem to be really healthy, they are out walking and riding bicycles and working on their farms in the 80's and 90's, I guess eating these healthy foods and fruits and wild herbs is doing them a lot of good.