[Sca-cooks] Playing around in the kitchen.

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> Also sprach Heleen Greenwald:

> >Do crimini
> >mushrooms have a taste much like portabello?  I am just starting to like
> >mushrooms and have so far declined to buy a package of crimini because I was
> >unsure of the taste.
> >Phillipa
>
> Criminis are pretty much identical to portobellos, except in size,
> and perhaps, intensity of flavor. Criminis, portobellos, horse/field
> mushrooms, and our cultivated white champignons are all gilled
> agaricas, and pretty closely related.
>
> Adamantius
>

Around here they've been marketing the criminis as "baby bellas" which is
terribly chi-chi and trendy. Pfeh. The only actual advance in mushroom
sales and marketing that I can see is that they've started selling the
pre-sliced white mushrooms *washed*, which is fine with me.

Margaret