From: riburr@shentel.net   
      
   tree wrote:   
   > "riburr" wrote:   
   >> Same here in Virginia, eastern U.S.  The Chanterelles commonly identified   
   >> as C. cibarius lack any distinctive taste, or aroma for that matter.  They   
   >> can get quite meaty; solid edibility through and through. Recipes for   
   >> preparing rather tasteless Chanterelles would be appreciated.  I love   
   >> pickling, but it overwhelms what must be some very subtle flavor.   
   >   
   > I thought you were in California for some reason. Do your flavour-lacking   
   > chanterelles get attacked by insect larvae? The reason I ask is that the   
   > ones I picked last year from my site had bugs in them. They seemed to enter   
   > through holes made in the centre of the "funnel" cap at the top. This was   
   > notable for me because all the ones I had previously ever picked had always   
   > been entirely bug free. My hypothesis is that at the chanterelles growing at   
   > this site are the same strain as your American variety that are tasteless   
   > and prone to insect attack. Perhaps imported as mycorrhizza on tree   
   > seedlings many decades ago???   
   >   
      
   Bugs don't seem to be a problem.  You might see a little burrowing in   
   some of the older specimens.  Access seems to be from low on the stem.   
   Here's what I picked from the yard today.  I think there're 4 species,   
   if you count blue-tinged black trumpets as a separate species from   
   salmon-tinted; See:   
   http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3840/14519797431_b430eeb6aa_z.jpg   
      
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