Very kind, Joe - wish it were true. Old age and bad knees inhibit the ability to foray, and a fierce autumn drought in Spain did the rest this past mushroom season (in addition to botching up our other kind of harvesting - grapes.) Except for the odd Pleurotus eryngii in Manchuela, I have been pretty much reduced to shopping for fungi in my covered market in Madrid, few from Spain and a lot from Romania, Moldova and such assorted places, diversely affected by the Chernobyl cloud. My best moment came with my first New York mushroom stew in several years. The dumb name (my creative gifts are scarce, as you know) comes from the fact it combines blue and orange fungi, Lepista nuda and Lactarius deliciosus, plus bits of panceta (yes, that is Spanish for pancetta) on a sofrito of onion and garlic, plus a glass of manzanilla sherry. It does offer some consolation.
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