The dish came with a creamy mound of morels and was the favorite of my old-time waiter, who delivered it to the table with a little bow. |
Each spring the bountiful crop in the surrounding Blue Mountains helps to set the global price for fresh morels. |
Some range into Alaska and the Yukon, where thick carpets of morels grow in burns accessible only by helicopter, floatplane, or river raft. |
Among foods featured are morels, persimmons, cherries, game, wild blackberries, and asparagus. |
In between mouthfuls of morels she told me how that was the only mushroom she would eat, ever. |
On my first visit, I enjoyed a roasted breast of chicken served with mashed potatoes shot through with truffle oil and fresh morels. |