STOP THE PRESSES

In what will certainly be listed as a day of infamy and send tremors through the "culinary endeavours and gastronomique" megaverse, King Boletus is not a proper scientific term but a conflation.

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have determined that the Porcini mushroom, the so-called namesake of this weblog, is known as King Bolete to the layman and Boletus edulis on the Linnaean classification system. So, is King Boletus a common or scientific name? The answer, sad to say, is no. 

BUT do not despair! This is a conflation, an amalgamation, a synthesis and dare-I-say lovechild of the two common and scientific terms. Like the finest of cooking, synthesis of styles yields delightful results (see the breakfast burrito). In a melding of the common man's and the common nerd's name for this fine mushroom, King Boletus represents this blog's dueling Apolline/Dionysian, endeavours/tourismes, creation/consumption disparities. But is this a duel?!? I say thee nay! This is not a duel but a dialectic.

For those keeping score at home, King Boletus is a proper name of this blog and should be treated as such.