Don't Eat the Mushroom

Each summer while growing up my family would spent a week or two in New Hampshire at my Uncle Bud's camp on Stinson Lake. My mother's sister Edith and her family would quite often be there with us. Uncle Ed was one of my favorite uncle's because he liked to play with us and he would use card tricks to entertain us. Uncle Ed would also go mushroom hunting on the trails up Stinson Mountain. The kids would always go along on the hunt. Uncle Ed would show us the mushrooms that he used in his cooking. The underbelly of the mushroom was solid and orange/yellow in color. When we brought him a mushroom with open slots underneath he would always tell us it was a poisonous mushroom. Uncle Ed Werona was Polish and loved to cook Polish recipes with his mushrooms.
Many years later while I was teaching I would take classes into the woods in the Townsend area with a fellow teacher Paul Tresaloni. As we entered the woods, Paul noticed mushrooms growing and he to loved to use mushrooms in his Italian cooking. Paul went to pick the mushrooms and brought them back to me to see. All of his mushrooms had underneath slots!