[Sca-cooks] Mattioli's Mushrooms

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Juana Isabella wrote
>  > 2 hens mushrooms (not sure which these are);
>  >
>  > Urtatim
>
>Might those be "Hen of the Woods" mushrooms?
>http://www.celtnet.org.uk/images/hen-of-the-woods.gif

I wondered ABOUT that. I just don't know if our cute name in English 
and their cute name in medieval German refer to the same mushroom. 
German speakers? Any ideas here?

I have been looking at LOTS of photos of mushrooms lately... and 
wiping the drool off my keyboard.

I am not sure where i get my love of mushrooms. Both my parents 
disliked them. And growing up in the Mid-West in the 1950s, canned 
and bottled mushrooms (aka rubber gaskets) were what we had 
available. I probably discovered the wonderful world of fresh 
mushrooms when i moved to Manhattan in the later 1960s. And when 
California in 1970, now that was a whole nother set of fresh fruit 
and vegetable revelations.

>If so, I can get those too :-) I do love Far West Fungi at the Ferry 
>Building http://www.farwestfungi.com/

Uh, oh, i am drooling again...
-- 
Urtatim [that's err-tah-TEEM]
the persona formerly known as Anahita