The folks who sailed past the charming displays of forest mushrooms, mountain coffees and foreign spices appeared happy to see them.

When I visited, dinner selections included snails with forest mushrooms and asparagus tips and duck's breast with caramelized apple.

It features a bouillon of forest mushrooms, and curried monkfish with pumpkin confit.

You see gipsies selling forest mushrooms at the side of the road.

There are "hand-harvested forest mushrooms in their juices", "panache of local duckling" and "scuba-dived deepwater scallops."

Practitioners of traditional medicine scrupulously tend their patches of wood to maintain supplies of forest mushrooms and exotic plants used in home remedies.

Loaded with masses of forest mushrooms, the New York strip steak was full of meaty flavor and came cooked to order.

Dishes are usually fish, cabbage, forest mushroom (like boletus) and poppyseed based, with herring being very important.

Entrees include a salmon souffle and sauteed elk chop with wild forest mushrooms.

About now come the forest mushrooms.