Japan is one of the leading producers of shiitake mushrooms. These mushrooms are notoriously difficult to cultivate on a commercial scale — especially when using the 1,000-year-old Japanese ...

When it's winter once more, shiitake begin to emerge from the surface of the logs. 06:42 In the cold, they take about a month to grow before they're finally ready for harvest.

Shiitake are now cultivated in Britain and can be bought fresh or dried. Snip off the hard stems (but don’t discard them – add to soups and stock). Shiitake go well with pork, meat and steamed ...

Dried porcini and fresh shiitake combine to bring an intense mushroom flavour to this vegan mushroom pâté. For this recipe you will need a food processor. Each serving provides 134 kcal ...

Mushrooms like shiitake, maitake ... A healthy gut flora is essential for digestion, as it helps in the breakdown and ...