Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-to-kitchen Guide
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Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-to-kitchen Guide

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C**L

Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America - What a Find!

I love the Information in this book. Love the colorful and tastefully (haha...no pun intended!) presented photographs...and of course the recipes! The introduction is VERY informative and includes the Mycophagist's 10 Commandments...very nice! This Book Inspires me to start scouring the land for these delicacies every time I pick it up. I especially appreciate the sections on Poisonous Mushrooms!! Chapters 12 & 13! Oh My Gosh!.....Knowing what NOT to eat is vital for those of us that love gathering our own mushrooms. I was not aware that the Half-free Morel has what I call a look alike poisonous counter part! The Wrinkled Thimble-Cap! (While it states that the Wrinkled Thimble-Cap may not be one of the most Toxic of Poisonous Mushrooms out there....it is still to be respected!) I love how the information is presented in in this book. Every Mushroom Identified in this book is accompanied with a beautiful colored photograph of the Mushroom, and then Information pertaining to that particular Mushroom is broken down into 5 orderly, condensed, easy to read and understand sections as follows; 1. Key Identifying Characteristics, 2. Description, 3. Fruiting, 4. Similar Species, 5. Edibility. Still learning and absorbing all this fabulous info! Such an informative as well as entertaining book. So glad I purchased it!

A**N

Good reference book

Better ID than other books. Makes me feel safer while foraging mushrooms.

L**A

It's a Keeper!

A great addition to our "Mushroom Library" Any knowledge we can gain in this field is a benefit. There were some realistic recipes and a few that made us wish Spring would hurry up so we could go "shrooming" for some of the mushrooms we haven't tried yet. The photos and key to identification were excellent. We checked this on the dozen or so mushrooms we know well and everything was right on, so we feel confident that we can identify a few that we were not sure of in the past. Of course we'll check them out in our other books and with our foraging friend who is a lot more experienced than we are at identifying mushrooms. He has 60 plus years of knowledge from gathering mushrooms with his extended family in this area of the country and a vast library of well used mushroom books.We raise Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms and freeze or dry them for later use, so that's mostly what we're using in the recipes until we can gather wild ones. While the taste and texture are not exactly the same, we can see which recipes we would want to try when we have a small amount of wild ones and don't want to waste them on a recipe we aren't sure would work for us.This is one book we expect to use frequently.

D**H

The Best Edible Mushroom Book

Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America (David W. Fischer and Alan E. Bessette, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1992) is becoming a hard to find item. I bought it when it was newly published, but I needed another copy to give as a Christmas gift. The book itself is the best review of edible mushrooms you can find. Included are a lot of inedible mushrooms that you need to know about if you are going to go out and collect fungi to eat or even if you are going to buy them at a fresh market. Never eat a mushroom if you cannot positively identify it. What a disappointment that could be if you have found a wonderful looking patch in the woods or in your yard but you are in doubt. This book will give you all the information you need to be informed and make your decision. A friend of mine told me about finding some attractive white mushrooms in his lawn. I asked him if he had any idea what they were. "Oh- they're the Destroying Angel. I saw the picture in a book." Well, he didn't read far enough because it was not the time of year for Amanita virosa to be fruiting, and the trees that they grow in association with were nowhere nearby. Yes, the mushroom had some of the characteristics of an Amanita, but there were crucial differences. If he had seen those differences, he would have recognized meadow mushrooms and known that he could have made a fine meal of them. Some people avoid wild mushrooms that way. They don't want to consider the possibility of mycophagy.

J**P

I love this book!

I have hunted mushrooms for many years and have several mushroom guides - this book is my favorite by far. It concentrates on great tasting wild mushrooms and also identifies several of the most common toxic species. The photos are great and do a very nice job of showing the tops and undersides of most fungi. The book is organized in a manner that makes it easy to use (much better than the other guides I own). The authors give great descriptions of each mushroom, any look a likes, where and when they can usually be found. They also include helpful cooking tips as well as some recipes. You will not be able to identify every mushroom you find with this book but it is very useful in identifying most of the great eating mushrooms. I like that the authors primarily use the common names vs. the Latin names (which are also included). If you like to forage & eat wild mushrooms, you will find this book very valuable.

H**M

Great book for those who want to learn about EDIBLE mushrooms

If you're into edible mushrooms (not necessarily "hallucinogenic,' this is THE book to own. There are other books that go into great detail about genus, spores, micro-whatevers (I have one that is useless to the average mushroom lover who simply wants to find edible fungi), but this book is about EDIBLE wild mushrooms. It also offers a very simple way to tell if a mushroom is poisonous or not, how to make a spore print, etc, plus any possible gastric upsets with each mushroom, if there are any. My problem is that I live in the hot, humid south and wild mushrooms only appear here a couple times a year, and those times are during deer season and turkey season so walking through the woods is likely to get you killed. Also, the so-called "publicly owned parks," in my area, i.e., the ones American tax dollars support, don't allow you to remove any form of plant life so unless you own your own property, you're just out of luck.However, IF you have access to some property that may be mushroom friendly, this is the book to own!

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