‘Burnt’ Mushrooms with Shallots, Crunchy Bacon and Red Wine

Mushrooms have been known as food for centuries, but have been cultivated in Europe and the USA for only about 150 years (they had been cultivated in Japan since the first century ad). All cultivated mushrooms have been developed from the wild field mushroom, Agaricus campestris, and, for this recipe, you can use simple button mushrooms, chestnut mushrooms with their slightly nutty flavour (hence the name), or closed-cap, open-cap or flat mushrooms. The caps and flats will give a muc