InThe Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised, mushroom guru Gary Lincoff escorts you through the cultural and culinary history of the mushroom, hunting and identifying wild mushrooms, mushroom safety, and on to preparing and serving the fungi. Stunning photographs and Lincoff''s fascinating anecdotes from the field will make you an instant mycophile.forge a connection to the Earth. Mushrooms are theultimate local food source; they grow literally everywhere, from mountains and woodlands to urban and suburban parks to your own backyard. <BR <BR <I>The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revisedwill enrich your understanding of the natural world and build an appreciation for an ancient, critically relevant, and useful body of knowledge. With great expertise, Lincoff providesa complete overview of edible mushrooms</STRONG>: from the mushroom''s earliest culinary awakening, through getting equipped for mushroom forays, to preparing and serving the fruits of the foray, wherever you live.- A brief, colorful history of mushroom hunting worldwide
- How to get equipped for a mushroom foray
- A completely illustrated guide to the common wild edible mushrooms and their poisonous look-alikes, with information of psychedelic and psychotherapeutic mushrooms
- An illustrated guide to medicinal mushrooms
- Where to find your fare, and how to identify them
- How to prepare and serve your fungi
- Thirty delicious recipes
Five appendices offer even more mushroom knowledge, with information onhow to make mushroom artwork,mushroom cultivation,less common edible varieties, andwinter hunting; plus find an <STRONG>essential guide to major poisonous mushrooms
, symptoms of poisoning, and treatment.T<I>he Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised</I>is your ideal guide.</P>
