You may recall that in MUSHROOMS, RUSSIA, AND HISTORY, Valentina Wasson refers to a "a little Jewish Shop," the Reliable Mushroom Company of Rivington Street as the best place in NYC to buy imported dried mushrooms, favored especially by Christian Russians for Lenten fare; dried Polish ceps fetching as much as $8.00 a pound circa 1950. That's Boletus edulis, pre-Chernoble. Food of the gods, indeed.
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