Morels at the Green Market

[Todd36]

Picked up some fresh, wild sourced morals today at the Union Square Greenmarket. From the mushroom farm place, althoug these were wild according to the gentleman manning the booth. $48 a pound. From somewhere in upstate NY, I have visions of somewhere along railroad tracks in the Bronx..... Cooked with butter and organic pork loin chops from Fairway, served over kasha and with a salad and cucumbers from Yuno's farm at the same greenmarket. It was a pretty tasty combination. Now if I don't wake up in the morning.....anyone have any idea where they really find the morels...not sure how short the season is...better hurry if you want some.

[Daniel]

The morels were 48 bucks a pound? Thats a lot isnt it? I have recently bought fresh morels at Whole Foods in Time Warner and thought they were 28 bucks..

[Dryden]

28 seems pretty low for morels... That's usually around the price for the non-morel, non-porcini varieties.

[Daniel]

Yeh.. I am not positive. And in all honesty the girl i guess didnt know what the heck i was getting at the check out counter cause i think she charged me half the 28 dollars.. I obviously should have said something but time constraints alone i didnt want to go through the process of educating the girl.

Edited May 10, 2005 by Daniel (log)

[ned]

I recently paid 28 bucks a pound for morels at the Whole Foods in Union Square.

[bronihk]

I recently paid 28 bucks a pound for morels at the Whole Foods in Union Square.

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weird...i just bought them at union sq whole foods for around $46/lb. this was last thursday, i believe. so expensive but really tasty.

[IML]

Anything north of $30/lb. for fresh morels is extortionate, no matter the quality, and NY morels are nowhere near the best in the US.

[mascarpone]

In the late seventies and early eighties my father picked Morels in Minneapolis St. Paul. He would go out and pick two grocery bags of mushrooms and we would be eating them every night for dinner. Little did I know then that they were considered a delicacy and would command such a high price.

[Luckylies]

In the late seventies and early eighties my father picked Morels in Minneapolis St. Paul. He would go out and pick two grocery bags of mushrooms and we would be eating them every night for dinner. Little did I know then that they were considered a delicacy and would command such a high price.

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yep used to find them growing in goose poop on the couny house lawn as a kid.

[CaliPoutine]

Picked up some fresh, wild sourced morals today at the Union Square Greenmarket.  From the mushroom farm place, althoug these were wild according to the gentleman manning the booth.  $48 a pound.  From somewhere in upstate NY, I have visions of somewhere along railroad tracks in the Bronx.....  Cooked with butter and organic pork loin chops from Fairway, served over kasha and with a salad and cucumbers from Yuno's farm at the same greenmarket.  It was a pretty tasty combination.  Now if I don't wake up in the morning.....anyone have any idea where they really find the morels...not sure how short the season is...better hurry if you want some.

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I just got some at St. Lawrence market in Toronto. They were 35CAD a lb. So expensive, so good.