This has been an extraordinary August for New York State mushroom
hunters, judging from offerings at the Union Square Greenmarket.

Friday we had a chioce of giant puffballs, black trumpets,
chantarelles, lobster mushroom, cepes (porcini), and three other
boletes. Also a couple of others whose names escape me.

We made dinner of cepes with potatoes, and sweet corn with garlic,
serrano, and sweet peppers. Finished with a tomatoe salad from four
farms. No, we are not vegetarians, but those were there, and very
satisfying.

Today, Jim Grillo had the biggest cepe I have ever seen, about 11 or
12 inches across. I would have bought it if having guests for dinner,
although I don't know what I would have done with it.

It would seem to demand the cap be cooked whole and cut up at table.
That is not to say it was perfectly round or anything like that, just
big.

What would you do with a foot-wide cepe?


Rodney Myrvaagnes NYC


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