used when cooking this mushroom. Further north and east it is a feature of Provençal cuisine. They are also collected in Poland, where they are traditionally served fried in butter, with cream, or marinated. In Cyprus, saffron milk caps are usually grilled on the charcoal and then dressed in olive oil and lemon or bitter orange, they are sautéed with onions, or sometimes stewed with onions, coriander and red wine. In Russian cuisine these mushrooms are traditionally preserved by salting. In India, the fungus is one of the ten most widely consumed mushrooms by ethnic tribes of Meghalaya. Culture A fresco in the Roman town of Herculaneum appears to depict L. deliciosus and is one of the earliest pieces of art to illustrate a fungus. See also List of Lactarius species References Cited texts External links deliciosus Fungi of Europe Fungi of Chile Edible fungi Catalan cuisine Fungi described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus