"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:40:01 GMT, "Paul M. Cook" >
> wrote:
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>>Wow, cool - good tip then, thank you. I know a couple in the Fairfax
>>district, they'd surely love to meet up on a Saturday.
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>>So I tell him Christine sent me?
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>>Paul
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> Nope. I never talked to him when I visited the market... I know he
> has posted on eGullet though and I remember seeing him at the market.
> Never stopped to buy anything.
>
> If you go, and if he is there, I hope you can find what you want. I
> have to qualify though, that he might not have what you want.
>
> Someday you have to go to the Wednesday market ....

I could, sure but it means waking up at a normal hour. I'm a night owl and
I'm busy at work while most people are sound asleep. However, I would do
most anything for the sweet, fruit-like and musty forest flavor of a fine
chanterelle, again. I can't think of any food I love more than fresh wild
mushrooms. It brings back so many memories. I remember entire days spent
searching the woods for morels and chanterelles - this, while other kids
were obsessed with baseball. Who needed a mushroom rooting pig when you
had a gourmet kid? They were just so rare and I'd scour the birch groves
all day and to come home with a basket of them was like finding Blackbeard's
treasure. We'd eat the morels sautéed in butter and garlic and the
chanterelles in a gratin of Vermont cheddar cheese on toast. Mighty fine
eating.

Paul