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She couldn't remember "the specific purchase", but had previously bought a variety of mushrooms - shitake, porcini, enoki - from similar stores, she said.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2025

Unlike shiitake, porcini or white button mushrooms, morels have a distinct appearance with a honeycomb-like top and hollow stem.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2025

Alta Adams’ chili crisp blends Fresno chiles smoked in-house and dehydrated, house-roasted peanuts, porcini mushroom powder and Ethiopian berbere spice.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2024

In a fruitful season, common Washington mushrooms include chanterelles, boletus, morels, porcini, lobster mushrooms, Pacific Northwest matsutake and oyster mushrooms.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2023

The reporter followed Angelo on a porcini mushroom hunt and then into a duck blind at dawn.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan