1.   Because the porcini contribute so much complexity, regular white mushrooms are just about as good as shiitakes.

2.   Cremini are as easy to find as plain white mushrooms, but they have more taste.

3.   Cut white mushrooms vertically into thin slices.

4.   Everybody grew white mushrooms, and everybody grew them about the same way.

5.   Farms where only white mushrooms had been cultivated are now sprouting brown domestic varieties, as well as shiitake, enoki and oyster mushrooms.

6.   Matsutakes, fortunately, are large white mushrooms.

7.   Out walking, they came upon a bloom of plump white mushrooms and the man of the other couple collected a mess of them.

8.   Q. Is it safe to eat giant white mushrooms that sprout near a tree trunk in the backyard?

9.   Plain white mushrooms are good, but do not chop them too fine.

10.   President Boris N. Yeltsin even bagged a few white mushrooms during his July vacation in Karelia in northern Russia.