Mushrooms

Porcini mushroom (Boletus edulis).

Mushrooms are as mysteriously unique as they are delicious. These tasty morsels are gaining in popularity. While mushrooms are cultivated, they grow wild in many regions of the world due to their unusual and fairly simple growth requirements.

Most mushrooms in the store are fairly common, and therefore well known by customers. Other varieties are as foreign to customers as if they came from another planet. This course looks at various types of mushrooms as well as how to store and handle them. Mushrooms are one of the items in the produce department that have unique requirements.

This course has the following objectives:

• Identify different types of mushrooms.
• Identify how to store and handle mushrooms.
• List how to troubleshoot mushroom problems

Course Duration: 45m