Shitakes And Shallots?

[PhilipDT]

I swear I leave for a month and a half and everything triples in price. Oh well...


Not only that that though, but suddenly there are no more shitake mushrooms! Also no shallots at the grocery store and barrio chino is stocked with the most pathetic looking things that look more like cloves of garlic.

Anybody have the scoop on what happened to our dear lentinula edodes?

 

[thebookcellar]

Summer months are always bad for stock in barrio chino - they sell to a lot of restaurants, many of whom close. Wait 'til after the carnival. Also, for shallots - try the feria itinerantes - but not the veg people, the ladies who sell beans, lentils, dried stuff. They always have shallots.