Button mushroom

Champignon de Paris

What it is

Under Napoleon’s Paris, growers discovered that abandoned quarry tunnels — cool, damp, dark — were perfect for mushrooms, and the catacomb farms gave it its French name. The world’s most cultivated mushroom began underground in the capital of light.

In the kitchen

Don’t crowd the pan: mushrooms steam in company and brown in solitude.

Goes with

Garlic Parsley Cream Thyme Egg Chicken Barley

Same species

Field mushroom

Also used with

Aiguillette baronne Amontillado Amourettes (spinal marrow) Beechnut Black garlic Charolais beef

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