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Googling portabello-mushroom gives 3,990 hits and portobella-mushroom 885. The ones I have looked at seem all to be recipes and bear no weight of authority.
Lemme add "mycology" to the mix and see what pops up.
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The Mushroom Council recognizes both names but *seems to prefer portabella, but note the URL and also note that the link at the top of the page is portabella while that at the bottom is portobello and they both take you to the same place. http://www.mushroomcouncil.com/varieties/portobello.htmlNo rest for you, AnnaS
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The Mushroom Council One would question why the American Mushroom Council would have any authority over an Italian word - although from our research it seems to be pseudo-Italian. But dictionaries are never the best place to look up cooking terms, especially considering that my Italian dictionary is not exactly comprehensive. 
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it seems to be pseudo-Italian
I did find a reference to a Portobello in Italy but it was Portobello di something-or-other. To add to the confusion one site or another (I forget which) said the mushroom got its name from the fact that it was *thought to be from Italy (emphasis mine).
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Both spellings were found written on a long-lost page of an Ira Gershwin manuscript.
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an Ira Gershwin manuscript
You don't say.
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OK, I'm confused again. And I thank all y'all for your research. So we still don't know the final word.
emanuela, I went to Rome in 1978 or 1979 and had dinner at a restaurant called Alfredo where I ate fettucini Alfredo. I remember it was served in a huge bowl for all present at the table, and that there were photographs of celebrities on the walls.
Confused on both counts, but isn't it great to have the back-and-forth and quid-pro-quo,
AnnaS goes off to slice and sauté some Port*bell* shrooms and pour them over lightly buttered fettucini.
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I must admit I've never heard of portobello/a mushrooms before, but there is Portobello Road in London, which is famous for its street market. According to the website for Kensington and Chelsea ( http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/EnvironmentalServices/StreetTrading/history.asp ) the name comes from Puerto Bello in the Caribbean. Perhaps you should be looking at your Spanish dictionaries rather than your Italian ones. Bingley
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I had been wondering along similar line, Mr B - or perhaps a Portuguese origin?
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Portabella mushrooms are just the little white "cap" mushrooms-- that have been left to grow to maturity-- at which point, marketers sell them from much more $$$. the flavor does change as the mushroom develops-- the same way green peppers taste different than red.
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