this seems more like what people think about "fancy cooking" than the reality. if a chef has used mushrooms in a dish it's not because they want to get the glut

this seems more like what people think about "fancy cooking" than the reality. if a chef has used mushrooms in a dish it's not because they want to get the glutamates the hard way, it's because the mushrooms have other flavours and textures that they wanted to incorporate into the overall dish. if all they wanted from the mushroom was the msg they would have used msg.