Article: Mushrooms: Nature's fast-cooking treasures

Mushrooms add pizzazz to almost any dish, from scrambled eggs to rice pilaf to vegetable soup. Few ingredients add such great flavor with so little work. In short, they are one of our best allies in the kitchen.

Mushrooms stand out in my memories of fine dinners -- buttery, mint-scented wild mushrooms in puff pastry cases at the celebrated Michel Guerard restaurant in southwest France; aromatic chanterelles and morels with chicken strips and wine sauce at the elegant La Reserve restaurant near Bordeaux; omelets filled with garlic- scented cepes (porcini) at a little cafe in Provence.

At many supermarkets you can find earthy, brownish large-stemmed porcini, delicate yellow-orange ...

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