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chanterelles

  • Chanterelle Risotto with White Truffle Salt

    Chanterelle Risotto with White Truffle Salt

    Here’s a friendly tip: make yourself buy an exotic ingredient even if you’re not sure what you’re going to do with it. For example, a few weeks ago I was at the Spice Station in Silverlake and I bought a little bag of white truffle salt. I bought it because after sniffing from the giant…

  • My First Chanterelles

    My First Chanterelles

    It’s a known fact that chefs prize chanterelles more than any other mushrooms. In one of the cookbooks that I own (I forget which one), the chef/author instructs: “If you ever see chanterelles, buy them.” And so it was that when I first saw chanterelles at the Hollywood farmer’s market more than a week ago,…