Food fungus is whipped into fresh meals at a New York restaurant: 'Delicious!'

A New York restaurant is serving fungus. 

While Neurospora intermedia might not appear on the menu, it's a key ingredient used to make certain meals in the kitchen at the Michelin-starred Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York. It's part of a collaboration between California researchers and chefs at Blue Hill and in Copenhagen to develop new foods using the fungus.

A study done at the University of California, Berkeley, and published in the journal Nature Microbiology detailed how the...