Mushrooming Without Fear: The Beginner's Guide to Collecting Safe and Delicious Mushrooms

Description

Is it safe or not? What gourmands and nature lovers need to know to harvest
your own. Advice, with photographs, from an expert! Novices eager to collect
tasty wild mushrooms will find this unique guide invaluable. Unlike others, it
focuses only on those types that are both safe to eat and delicious. Most
importantly, it presents the eight rules of mushroom gathering in a
straightforward fashion, including, “Never, never take a mushroom with gills”
and “If a mushroom smells rotten, it is rotten.” Among the mushrooms covered
are the cep; the red-cracked, larch, bay, and birch boletes; hen of the woods,
chanterelle, trumpet chanterelle, hedgehog fungus, common puffball, horn of
plenty, and cauliflower mushroom. Each is identified with several photographs
and identification checklist, and there’s also information on mushroom season,
handling, storage, and cooking, complete with recipes. Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skyhorse (October 17, 2007)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1602391602
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 04
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.44 x 0.3 x 9.65 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #9,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #9 in Mushrooms in Biological Sciences #15 in Outdoors & Nature Reference #17 in Vegetable Cooking (Books)
• #9 in Mushrooms in Biological Sciences
• #15 in Outdoors & Nature Reference