a recommendation for this little mushroom that has been popping up (ha - a pun) in grocery stores here, the brown Beech Mushroom. It is the third favorite in Japan, has a pleasant taste, somewhere between our bella and Japan's shitake to me. It's pleasant in omelets and so pretty put into stir-fry for me, but HRH won't touch mushrooms because "it's a fungus!". Oh well - he's lived a sheltered life.
editing : The package I got from Whole Foods looked like this one.
But the important thing is, even though many mushrooms are super healthy for us, this is the one that tested best as far as lowering triglicerides and causing less plaque deposits to form in arteries. We totally need that. Btw, Dr. Andrew Weil says he would never bother eating any mushroom raw - it will be indigestible and won't release nutrients, plus there could be small amounts of toxins that probably won't hurt you, but are best cooked away. I was interested to read that he likes my favorite for taste, shitake, best because of cancer fighting properties.
Next book I want to read is by Dr. Michael Greger. I've enjoyed him on youtube. He's Director of Public Health for the Humane Society of the U.S., a comedian, physician, and really fascinating speaker. Likes charts. He wrote, How Not to Die (December), which I just haven't gotten to yet, being absorbed by the End of... series by Fuhrman, which requires re-reading to "get" it all.