Mature. This can mean ripe, aged or seasoned in reference to cheese, wine or meats.

The process of curing and maturing cheeses and meats. The period of aging and seasoning.

Season

A dialect name for the black boletus mushroom. Excellent to eat from August to October whether raw in salads or cooked or preserved and also freezes well.

Sterlet. A small and very rare sturgeon, the source of the famed golden caviar, the caviar favoured by the Tsars. The fish itself is ugly and eel-like in appearance and is served baked with vegetables. Found in the Volga and Caspian.

Summer cep or bolete mushroom. A round, brown-capped mushroom with nutty flavour.

"Summer." Red onion. A mild, sweet 'spring' onion (US: scallion) with strong colour, famously from Certaldo in Tuscany. Vernina will be the winter harvested onion, Statina, the summer one.