Fresh Mushrooms
Fungi, like people, can manufacture Vitamin D in their cells when exposed to sunshine. Strange, but true.
Gourmet Mushrooms, Founded by Malcolm lark and David Law in 1977 was a pioneer in the Specialty Mushroom field. It is because of companies like ours that America's tastes are changing. Purchases of specialty mushrooms climbed four percentage points from Fresh Trends 2008. As was the case last year, the likelihood of purchase increased according to income. In fact, shoppers in the highest income bracket were more than twice as likely to buy specialty mushrooms as those earning less than $50,000.
Chef Bob Engel Shares two recipes for great Turkey Stuffing
Chef Liaison Bob Engel shares recipes and mushroom lore.
Mycopia's Chef's Sampler is a HIT according to Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert. He gave our mushrooms 91 points, including 29 out of 30 possible points for Flavor. What have we been telling you?
Gourmet Mushrooms, Inc. has been chosen to supply mushrooms for Chef George Mendes dishes at the 2009 New York StarChefs,com™ Rising Star Awards.
Gourmet Mushrooms' Chef Liaison, Bob Engel, has been invited back for the third year to the EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival in Orlando, Florida.
In 1992 Julia Child visited Gourmet Mushrooms, Inc. It was her first introduction to the cultivation of specialty mushrooms and she was wowed. She told David Law, "I'll look at mushrooms with different eyes in the future."
Chef Liaison and Marketing Director Bob Engel gives a tour to Senior Student Chefs from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY.
Because mushrooms support the immune system, they are the perfect first line of defense against flus and other viruses including the swine flu.
We love the many names for mushrooms, deriving as they do from different cultures and local lore, but we hate to see confusion and out-and-out misnaming. Take a look at this "Definitive" guide for all of the mushrooms we grow, and some other favorites. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but why call it a pansy?
It's not location, location, location - it's variety, variety, variety. Mushrooms are gaining in popularity because they offer a wide range of colors and textures while sharing a common ability to enhance the flavor of any dish. This savory, flavor-boosting quality is referred to by the Japanese term umami, which translates roughly as “deliciousness.”
What are America's great chefs doing with our organic specialty varieties? Look here for their mushroom menu ideas.
Research at Johns Hopkins Medical Center on obesity suggests that mushrooms are a good food to include in any weight loss diet.
Your gourmet friends have already seen the cheese and cracker basket. This year send them something REALLY special. Six varieties of Organic Specialty mushrooms in a wicker gift basket.
Oct. 26. 3:15 PM. Mushroom Cookery with Chef Bob Engel at COPIA. Mushrooms for Holiday Entertaining, and a slide show tour of our fascinating farm. Your mushroom questions answered by a pro.
Many people still think that mushrooms are tasty, but not high in nutrients. Maybe it's the pale color. But mushrooms are high in antioxidants like selenium and a good source of B Vitamin.
A full page article in the September 2008 Vegetable Growers News features an interview with Gourmet Mushrooms' Chef Liaison Bob Engel discussing the expansion of the company's organic line.
Fall is here and science teachers are using our mushroom growing kits to tell the story of the Fungal Kingdom's contribution to our planet's ecology. Fascinating fungal fun.
Imagine a mushroom with the texture of the most tender abalone you've ever tasted. A delicious new mushroom, available in limited quantities beginning Fall 2008.
Gourmet Mushrooms, Inc. of Sebastopol, California, growers of the MYCOPIA® brand of organic specialty mushrooms, has concluded agreements with two other Pacific Coast growers and now offers an all-organic program to its customers. Gourmet Mushrooms' five varieties of specialty mushrooms are now complemented by organically grown shiitake and maitake.
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Gourmet Mushrooms CEO David Law says, "We are seeing a more informed population, especially younger generations, paying credence to the health benefits of fungal products."