The complete mushroom hunter : an illustrated guide to foraging, harvesting and enjoying wild mushrooms : including new sections on growing your own edibles and off-season collecting

The complete mushroom hunter An illustrated guide to foraging, harvesting and enjoying wild mushrooms : including new sections on growing your own edibles and off-season collecting

Gary Lincoff

Book - 2017

This revised edition includes a history of mushroom hunting worldwide; how to get equipped for mushroom forays; an illustrated guide to the common wild edible mushrooms; and cultivating, preparing and serving the harvest.

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Subjects
Edible mushrooms > Identification.
Mushrooms > Identification.
Published
Beverly, Massachusetts : Quarry Books 2017.
Language
English
Main Author
Gary Lincoff (author)
Edition
Revised edition
Item Description
Previous edition: 2010.
Physical Description
208 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 204) and index.
ISBN
9781631593017
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Mushrooms: The What and the Who
  • Mushroom Poisoning and Health Hazards
  • Mycophilia and Mycophobia
  • World Markets
  • Chapter 2. Mushroom Hunting
  • Lawns
  • Backyards
  • A Local Park Mushroom Hunt
  • A Walk on the Wild Side: The Big Bad Woods
  • Essential Equipment
  • Extreme Mushrooms: Going for the Gold
  • Eating Like There's No Tomorrow
  • Chapter 3. Mushroom Identification
  • What Are Fungi?
  • What is a Mushroom?
  • Identifying Mushrooms Using All Our Senses
  • Worldwide Mushroom Field Groups
  • Morels
  • Truffles
  • Chanterelles
  • Black Trumpets
  • Tooth Fungi
  • Hedgehog (or Sweet Tooth)
  • Coral Fungi
  • Boletes
  • Polypores
  • Giant Puffball
  • Lobster Mushrooms
  • Jelly Fungi
  • Edible Gilled Mushrooms
  • Agaricus Mushrooms
  • Oyster Mushrooms
  • Honey Mushrooms
  • Shaggy Mane
  • Matsutakes
  • Shrimp Russula
  • Milk Caps
  • Blewits and Bluefoot
  • Poisonous Mushrooms
  • Psychedelic and Psychotherapeutic Mushrooms
  • Chapter 4. Medicinal Mushrooms
  • Chapter 5. Bringing Home the Harvest: Mushroom Recipes
  • Appendix I. Mushroom Arts & Crafts
  • Appendix II. Mushroom Cultivation
  • Appendix III. Incredible Edibles
  • Appendix IV. Winter Hunting
  • Appendix V. Essential Guide to Major Posionous Mushrooms, Symptoms of Poisoning, and Treatment
  • Photo Credits
  • Resources
  • Acknowlegments
  • About the Author
  • Index

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