The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised: Illustrated Guide to Foraging, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms - Including new sections on growing your own incredible edibles and off-season collecting.

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.

Gathering edible wild food is a wonderful way to forge a connection to the Earth. Mushrooms are the ultimate local food source; they grow literally everywhere, from mountains and woodlands to urban and suburban parks to your own backyard.

The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised will 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 provides a complete overview of edible mushrooms: 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.

Inside you’ll find:

• 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-alike plants, 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

Physical Copy:
Publisher: Crestline Books; Illustrated edition 2015
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.5 x 10.5 inches

Physical Book: 204 pages

ISBN: 9781631593017

Digital Copy: This is also available as a digital download!

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