Shiitake are one of the easts most exotic and delicious foods with a subtle woody taste that adds gourmet flair to almost any dish our organic shiitake mushrooms are carefully grown selected and dried to offer the full depth of flavour and aroma that is highly prized in both eastern and western cuisine the variety used is characterised by large well developed caps which makes them easy to reconstitue and use in everyday cooking the word shiitake means shii oak tree take mushroom t