In fall, a woman's fancy turns to
I'd like to say I'm a well-balanced, even-keeled woman, but it's hard to do that with a straight face. Especially this time of year, when I become almost entirely obsessed with mushrooms. I can't explain the exhilaration I feel; it's not just the thrill of the hunt, nor the deliciousness of the harvest, nor the satisfaction of accomplishing something unusual and difficult. It's a synergistic combination of all this and more that I can't quite articulate.
This fall I'm indulging my desire by re-taking Gary Lincoff's 4 week class at the NYBG: Mushroom Mania. It IS a kind of mania. After I cook a particularly delicious mushroom, I can't stop thinking about it for days. I want more, I wake up dreaming about the taste, which can't be re-created with a cultivated fungus.
I've posted here before about my summer mushroom finds: black trumpets, cinnabar red chantarelles, and purple-gilled laccaria. Now that the weather has changed, there's a different mushroom menu to choose from, and this weekend I found two new (to me!) edibles:
1) Lactarius corrugis (corregated lactarius)
2) Hydnum repandum (sweet tooth)
Class again tomorrow afternoon...who knows what we'll find! I'm hoping for honey mushrooms.
1 Comments:
I'm SO jealous you found sweet tooth! I had it once at a wild edibles festival, but have never found it myself. I'll console myself with that hen I found a couple of days ago.
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