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Ask Vitaly about his participation in the Oregon Truffle Festival

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Everybody knows that chanterelles don't rehydrate!  to preserve, saute in butter and freeze!

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Oregon has  some of the world's most cherished and valued mushrooms, culinary truffles.  James Beard felt our truffles - most particularly the Oregon winter whites and the Oregon black - were as good as their European cousins, and Oregon is becoming an international destination for all things truffle in large part because of the Oregon Truffle Festival, created in part to promote the burgeoning Oregon truffle industry.

  Unlike other wild harvested mushrooms, their value is totally dependent on ripeness, and the reputation of Oregon's truffles has suffered from poor harvesting practices.  Now that we are harvesting almost all the truffles for the festival with dogs, their reputation is improving and their price is rising at the same time habitat is being protected.

There's a very big story here, still waiting to be told, that Oregon should be very excited about.

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Our most powerful memories are sensory based.  The loss of the tactile, the olfactory and the machine like experience for the viual and auditory senses will change the way our brains remember.

 This will be junk in the landfill soon, and it has to be plugged in.  Will Amazon offset the power use it generates?  Will Amazon take all this plastic back and reuse/recycle it?

Libraries are public space;  loss of this browsing commons and further isolation for people who seek quiet company, or who are lonely will have social consequences.

We’re obese, especially children…most readers aren’t lugging around pounds of books!

Affordability of the device will further divide us.

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