Mushrooms - fresh

If you are traveling to or through Pennsylvania, include Chester County in your tour. Kennett Square is the self-styled 'Mushroom Capital of the World'.

C.P. Yeatman & Sons mushroom farm have an outlet, The Mother Earth Country Store, selling shiitake, cremini, enoki, maitake, button and portobello in season, weekdays at 600 Baker Station Rd, West Grove, PA, 610 869 3595.

The most common are also sold by Sher Rockee Mushroom Farm, 170 Sher Rockee Lane, Lincoln University, PA, 610 869 8048.

You can order Kennett Square mushrooms by mail from Oakshire Mushroom Farm. Call 800 255 2077.

Marché aux Delices sells them fresh, dried and frozen, call 888 547 5471.

To grow shiitake yourself, though no more than a handful have ever appeared for me..., buy a shiitake log from Merymede Mushrooms, Rte. 621, Amissville, VA, 540 937 5478. They also sell the mushrooms between mid-April and mid-November.

Fungi Perfecti, 800 780 9126 will send you a catalog of all the different exotic mushrooms they will supply to grow yourself - everything from reishi to morels.

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