Where do you buy your mushrooms? In a supermarket? In a tienda? How about fancy ones, like chantrelles or shitakes?

When we lived in the California Wine Country, we bought ours (when we felt like splurging) at the Sonoma Market, a chi-chi independent supermarket that sold line-caught wild salmon and had an olive bar.

In Marrakech, you might want to try the local rock shop. Of course.

Gathered in the wild as all morels must be (they can't be domesticated), these are nestled between the desert roses and some ammonite casts. The price is right: Dh 100 per kilo. About a fifth of what you'd have had to pay in California five years ago.

Make sure you check the hollow stems for earwigs!