On 06/15/2012 03:13 PM, Sacha wrote:
On 2012-06-15 10:29:36 +0100, Emery Davis said:

On 06/15/2012 10:59 AM, Sacha wrote:
On 2012-06-15 08:34:45 +0100, Emery Davis said:

On 06/15/2012 12:48 AM, Sacha wrote:
Mushrooms in shops are not expensive to buy. Ask yourself how much
your
health is worth compared to a punnet of mushrooms.

A kilo of Cepes costs 50 to 75 EU in a French market. Cheaper far to
gather your own if you can. We put up many kilos for use during the
coming year. And they're much tastier than the standard supermarket
mushroom.

I do agree with the second sentence though, and we never eat anything
we're not 100% sure about.

And in France you have the bonus of pharmacies which have an expert who
identifies fungi.

That's probably true in some places, but no longer so much in the Perche
and surroundings. Surprising given that there are more species of
fungus than anywhere else in France, IIRC there are nearly 250
identified locally. Our pharmacist did the training at the but admits
she is pretty clueless. (http://www.mycologiades.com/ in French sorry).
I guess the younger generation of pharmacists just cant be bothered.

When we first moved to our village, which is called The Coffin (in
French of course) the mushroom expert was the undertaker!

-E

Slight of conflict of interests there - keep 'em alive, or increase his
earnings?!! I'm sorry to hear that useful service is on the slide.
given the number of people who go mushroom picking in France, I've
always thought it a really sensible idea to have experts in many areas
of the country. I would think clueless but still offering an opinion
would be more dangerous than no advice at all!

We always assumed he had himself a nice little earner! And, never
asked him for advice...