Chestnut Mushrooms

Hello Friends,

Per an online search, chestnut mushrooms (Pholiota adiposa), also known as cinnamon caps, are a type of edible mushroom characterized by their distinctive golden or reddish-brown colored caps. Chestnut mushrooms are the same as cremini mushrooms. They are both brown varieties of the Agaricus bisporus species, which also includes white button mushrooms and portobellos. The only difference is their size and maturity, with chestnut/cremini being the intermediate stage before portobellos.

Pictured here is roughly half a pound of them. I bought them as much to photograph them as to eat them. I found these at a newly opened farmer's market at the corner of Cherry and 4th Street in Long Beach, open on Thursdays early in the morning until noon. The vendor recommended them in pasta dishes, so I combined them with a little bit of finely chopped onions, lots of finely chopped garlic, olive oil, pappardelle pasta (wide egg noodles) and a little sour cream. Decadent and delicious.

I placed them on a wooden cutting board and used the edges of the cutting board as guidance for phantogram processing. This was shot with a Fuji W3. For better free-viewing, if you'd like this file in LR(above)RL(below) format email me back for it.

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Regards,

Barry Rothstein

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