Christine wrote:

>> But the term "spring vegetable pizza" seems a bit
>> misleading, since it's an asparagus-and-mushroom pizza, and mushrooms
>> are not particular harbingers of spring the way that green peas,
>> asparagus, and artichokes are.
>
> Unless you count Morels, which as far as I know, are very much
> harbingers of spring.

I think of morels as more of a pre-spring thing: You know how every
winter you get a few days when it *feels* like spring is here, then the
winter comes howling back? That's when morels show up.

Bob