Portobelo

With no apparent relation to Portobello, Scotland or Portobelo, Panama, this mushroom is "is an American invention with Italian roots," writes Lynne Olver.

“Francis Drake used the nearby town of Portobelo to extract all the Inca gold. I’m doing the same with all this plastic,” he says.

The surgeons were scientifically educated, she says, and had plenty of free time at ports such as Cartagena, in modern Colombia, and Portobelo, in modern Panama, while their fellow crew members sold slaves and provisioned the ships.

The San Jose had been loaded with gold and emeralds at Portobelo, in present-day Panama.

Back in the pirate days, both Christopher Columbus and Sir Francis Drake fought for control of the Portobelo region.