The mushroom hunter's year begins with morels (Morchella esculenta), beige or charcoal and honeycombed with crevices.

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We discovered that the Federal Government was honeycombed with newsletters, bulletins, reports, and studies on everything from NATO to Plato.

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"There are things that are ready-to-wear" like their lucrative furniture line "and then we've got the couture, " like the honeycombed brass stool, which took them two intensive weeks to craft.

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They're talking about something far more refined: the morel, that spring darling, with its earthy flavor and distinctively honeycombed head, filled with things like scallop mousse, fava beans and crawfish, and foie gras.

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