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Michael Cimarusti is the chef at Providence. He is cooking fresh chanterelle mushrooms native to California that he finds at Tutti Frutti Farms. These wild mushrooms cannot be cultivated and pop up after rains. He pairs these orange mushrooms with John Dory fish from New Zealand. The mushrooms should be available for three to four more weeks.

Here’s a simple way to cook chanterelles that can be used a stand alone side dish or used as a sauce and garnish for meat, fish or foul.

Sprouting broccoli grown by Maryann Carpenter of Coastal Farms is not the same variety as the typical broccoli crown we all know. It is it's own unique variety and, even though difficult to harvest, is an easy vegetable to cook with because you can eat the whole thing -- stems, leaves and head. Maryann recommends blanching the broccoli first, removing as much water as possible, then stir frying with olive oil, garlic and red pepper flakes.

Music Break: It Never Rains In Southern California by Albert Hammond