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the same mushroom playing dress-up at three different ages and price points
means A young, brown variety of the common cultivated mushroom (Agaricus bisporus), firmer and earthier than the white button but harvested before it matures into the portobello.
from From Italian, where crimino (plural crimini) names a small brown mushroom — diminutive in feel and likely tied to the same Mediterranean fondness for little edible fungi. English borrowed it and respelled it 'cremini,' sometimes 'crimini,' the way grocery labels reshape foreign words to look appetizing. The name simply marks the color and youth of a mushroom that, left alone, becomes the portobello.
- secret identity
- identical species to white button and portobello
- aging up
- grow it older and it becomes portobello
- baby brown
- name means little cream in Italian
- umami load
- more flavor than its pale younger self
monterey mushrooms — largest cremini producer in north america, based in california
ostrom's mushroom farm — pennsylvania-based cremini grower supplying us markets since 1977