Go to Recipe Go to Video The Ancient (And Exquisitely Delicious) Shiitake – Lentinus edodes  Sixty five million years ago, during the cretaceous period, the shiitake mushroom was delighting the tastebuds of dinosaurs. Shiitake spores, carried by tumultuous typhoons, have been discovered all over Asia dating from that period, lucky Barackosaurus and company. Except …