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from 2022 Mushroom Festival & Visitors Guide

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Mushroom recipes

DID YOU DID YOU KNOW? KNOW?

White mushrooms owe their popularity to chefs from France who made them an essential part of French cuisine several hundred years ago.

“Mushroom” is defined by the Random House Dictionary as “any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.”

Mushrooms are grown in the dark, but it’s not because they are adversely affected by light. Sunlight is not needed because mushrooms do not produce chlorophyll like regular green plants. Since it is not needed, the cost and inconveniences of providing light are removed.

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Mushrooms have been around for literally thousands of years, and there are thousands of different mushroom species.

Only a small percentage of the total number of mushroom species are actually edible. And only about 100 different varieties are cultivated by growers. About twenty or so species are grown for commercial purposes. Just six species account for most of the mushrooms sold in the U.S.

Mushrooms have been around for so long that even the Bard himself, William Shakespeare, waxed poetic about our favorite fungi. In the lone mention that Shakespeare made of mushrooms (at least the only one that we could find), he referred to them as “midnight mushrooms.” That’s appropriate since mushrooms are, of course, grown in the dark.