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A mushroom primer, from buying to cooking

There's no better time of year than winter

Photo credit: Getty Images | There's no better time of year than winter to include mushrooms in your recipe repertoire.

They are a singularly unprepossessing bunch, mushrooms. Dun-colored, ragged, misshapen. Botanically, they are somewhere between a rock and a plant. But there are few other ingredients that can imbue even the simplest dish with such deep, rich savor.

There's no better time of year than winter to include mushrooms in your recipe repertoire, and local markets have risen to the task of making...

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