Word: morels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Musicians-Behind-the-Desks Series--the Providence Players perform works of Telemann, Loeillet, Morel, Marais and Bach. Free, in MIT's Killian Hall Wednesday at noon...
Sometimes natural disaster has a sunny side. Last summer raging fires consumed 98,000 acres of spruce around Tok in the Alaskan interior. But this year villagers are harvesting a bumper crop of morels, wild mushrooms springing up with abandon on the charred forest floor. The delicacy, which sells in specialty shops for $14 a pound fresh and as much as $200 a pound dried, is in great demand in tony restaurants. When Tok folk learned they could make as much as $20 an hour gathering morels for wholesale buyers from Seattle and Vancouver, "they went crazy," says Aaron Schutt...