Your observation is true here in Ontario, Canada also.  Very few people can
spot the "right' types and the media has hyped the idea of poison that few
people are willing to chance it..

More people in Northern Ontario still turn to the land for food..they know
the right ones, but the south considers itself "civilised" i guess, which
means if it's not bleached in plastic wrap on styrofoam in your grocery
store it's not proper.

Our chef's in Ontario don't use Ontario produce much because it has a
reputation of being "dirty" also.

Sherri

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 Question
In continental Europe, gathering wild mushrooms is a popular pastime and
knowledge of types and their culinary virtues is widespread. In Britain few
people can tell one mushroom from another. Why? Surely there was a time when
Britain's rural population ate anything edible. Has mushroom lore simply
been
lost?


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