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The Complete Mushroom Hunter: An Illustrated Guide to Foraging, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms Kindle Edition
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 will enrich your understanding of the natural world and build an appreciation for an ancient, critically relevant, and useful body of knowledge. Amateur mycologists and mushroom enthusiasts will find this is a guidebook for their passion.
Mushroom guru Gary Lincoff escorts you 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, but 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: where to find them, how to identify them, and more
- How to prepare and serve the fruits of your foray, plus more than 30 delicious recipes
- Plus, dozens of colorful, priceless anecdotes from living the mushroom lifestyle
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherQuarry Books
- Publication dateJune 15, 2017
- File size39997 KB
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Gary Lincoff taught courses on mushroom and plant identification and use at the New York Botanical Garden and led wild mushroom and edible wild plant study trips and forays to 30 countries. Lincoff chaired the Telluride Mushroom Festival for 25 years (1980–2004), and continued to participate for many years as its principal speaker. He was the president of the North American Mycological Association from 1980 to 1986. His books include the The Complete Mushroom Hunter and National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms. He lived in New York City.
Product details
- ASIN : B074G57B28
- Publisher : Quarry Books; Revised, Illustrated edition (June 15, 2017)
- Publication date : June 15, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 39997 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : Not Enabled
- Print length : 198 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #511,864 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #41 in Botany of Mushrooms
- #93 in Outdoor & Nature Reference
- #244 in Outdoor Instructional Guides
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Well, this book is exactly like those . . . except it's 100 times better! Absolutely superb!
Gary Lincoff was one of if not THE world's leading mushroom authorities. (That alone should suffice for a reason to buy this book, don't you think?) The book is well-organized, documented and illustrated -- again, think DK travel guides -- and is ALSO light-weight and flexible to, yes, take with you on your foraging. (An important practical feature of this book actually that you will appreciate on your first outing.) Mr. Lincoff begins with mushroom gathering practices from around the world; proceeds with A-Z instructions of a mushroom hunt (i.e., what to do, where to search, what to wear, etc.); then, the bulk of the book, delves into the all important identification characteristics of the major mushrooms families; followed by medicinal mushrooms, what to properly do with the harvest including several recipes, and concludes with several appendices (cultivation, winter hunting, etc.), ALL of which, again, is illustrated with endless photographs, tables and tips. SUPERB!
Are you getting the picture of how excellent this book is? I simply cannot say enough good things about it and highly recommend it!
One more important note. If you are not aware of its publisher, Quarto Publishing Group, please look them up! I sadly admit that I hadn't heard of them prior to buying this book . . . but they are simply superb in the variety of topics they cover and how thoroughly they do so ALL at an affordable price: look, for example, how much book you are getting for your money with this book. In today's world, that is a service to us all for which Quarto should be thanked!
Thank you, Quarto!
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Very little information of the edible nature of many mushrooms covered, there's an irrelevant section on cultivated mushrooms (in a wild mushroom book) and then some random anecdotes about the author's friends seem to act as replacement for useful information.
The author seems to know a lot about mushrooms, but the publishers don't know how to put a book together. It doesn't work as a quick reference field guide, and is a boring book to read cover to cover.