They are an excellent spice, but they are harder to digest. In the Czech Republic, mushroom picking has been very popular for centuries, and especially in forested regions, mushrooms were an important part of the diet. We do not serve many at once, we slice them into thin strips and always drizzle them with lemon juice or wine or apple cider vinegar.

Mushrooms contain valuable aromatic substances, so it is advisable to cook them in cold water to extract as much as possible into the dish. Besides classic scrambled eggs with mushrooms or mushroom schnitzels, mushrooms are added to pasta, pearl barley, and are used to prepare tasty goulash, sour mushrooms, or stuffing.