Among foods featured are morels, persimmons, cherries, game, wild blackberries, and asparagus. |
Some range into Alaska and the Yukon, where thick carpets of morels grow in burns accessible only by helicopter, floatplane, or river raft. |
Using a slotted spoon, transfer the potatoes, pearl onions, carrots, morels, and baby leeks to a bowl and set aside, keeping warm. |
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. |
Indeed, giving his bounty to others may have had something to do with his great success in finding those elusive morels. |