"To gather mushrooms is not a job that can make anyone. You must be katecharis
"explains Ms. Joanna Pantelaki Cretan cuisine chef and member of the Board the
Cretan Gastronomy Network. Ms. Joanna picks itself wild mushrooms, which cooks and
knowing lots of traditional recipes.
"The mushrooms you collect should have beside their garbage, glass, rusty objects.
Must be all clean around them. Even if the mushroom is eaten by chochlio not mean it
is good, as they believed the older, "says Mr. Pantelaki, taking care to collect
mushrooms from pristine areas, there are no crops and where a large number of
trees. The same never eradicates the mushroom, but the cuts to maintain part of and
grow back later.
From December to February is the best time to collect mushrooms. Collectors mainly
choose the morning to have a lot of time gathering the quantities they want.
Source: Haniotika News
How to choose
• Good quality fresh white mushrooms (cultivated) must be tight and "crunchy"
texture.
• If the cut by hand, "break" easily, and are divided into fibers.
• They have uniformly rounded "caps", with smooth shiny surface without spots and
dents.
• The lower part of the 'caps' should not show gaps.
Kritika mushrooms recorded for the first time!
Three new species of mushroom recorded at Mushroom Festival, conducted in Zaros,
the Pancretan Folklore Association. According to the teacher, author and chairman of
Manitarofilon Greece, George Constantinides, these three species were collected in
Zaros groves, the Lido beach in Heraklion and Chania first recorded nationwide.
Mushrooms in Crete
Crete has become systematic recording of native mushrooms. However, bearing in
mind the efforts of modern recorder manitarofilon Cretans seems that the island is
very interesting. The following 66 species found from all above the island identified
by George Konstantinidis (64)
Amanites
Amanitis: derived from the word aman of Cilicia (Asia Minor). In ancient times the
term sleeveless collected and exported large quantities AMANITA (> amanitarion>
mushrooms) High quality. Although passed millennia, in Crete, as in other islands, the
term survives and is used!