Wild mushrooms

[237SJ]

You often see wild mushrooms in dishes on restaurant menus. How can they serve wild mushrooms all year round when they only grow in October? Are they dried? Are they just the wild mushroom variety but cultivated?

[EcclesCake]

There are many fungi that grow throughout the year, in fact now is a good time to find morels.

You are likely to find dried mushrooms used to augment what is available fresh.

[TonyV]

can be dried

[237SJ]

I`ve got a vision of a cook in his whites and a little wicker basket from some posh central London restaurant gathering mushrooms from Epping Forest in his lunchbreak. Yes, I guess most of them must be dried.

[TonyV]

237 as eccles has said - you can pick funghi almost all the year round, as with other wild plants - knowing which ones to pick is the secret - London chefs don't go out with thier baskets early in the morning - they have suppliers lol

[merciasounds]

you can have a bash at growing your own!

http://www.gourmetmus...o.uk/product_home.htm

[katerich48]

Your almost right about a chef in his whites with a basket.. I lived a few doors along from Antonio Carluccio's restaurant and I'd often see him unloading mushrooms from the back of his car - He had an estate car and he'd have the back seats pushed downso it was flat and a big white tablecloth spread out and the mushrooms all very carefully and individually spread out on the cloth