The Edible Mushroom Book


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The first fully-illustrated book to not only help readers cook with mushrooms, but also to help them forage for fungi in the wild, The Edible Mushroom Book is part field guide, part cookbook. Beginning in the kitchen, readers learn how to prepare wild fungi for cooking, then how to make sixty mouthwatering recipes from Scrambled Chanterelles to Baked Mushroom Polenta. Moving on to the field, The Edible Mushroom Book tells you where and when to forage, provides an identification guide, and includes information on morethan fifty-five edible mushrooms.







Foraging Mushrooms Oregon


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Detailed descriptions of edible mushrooms; tips on finding, preparing, and using mushrooms; a glossary of botanical terms; color photos. Use Foraging Mushrooms as a field guide or as a delightful armchair read. No matter what you’re looking for, be it the curative Heal-All or a snack, this guide will enhance your next backpacking trip or easy stroll around the garden, and may just provide some new favorites for your dinner table.




Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the World


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Mushrooms are among the most intriguing and striking inhabitants of the natural world, as highly regarded for their distinctive flavors and uses in cooking and medicine as for their sometimes strange, often beautiful shapes and forms. Some are medicinal, others poisonous or even lethal. Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the World is a well-rounded look at mushrooms, including their cultivation, ethnobotanical uses, and the fascinating roles they play in nature. The authors provide expert advice on how to identify and distinguish between edible and poisonous wild mushrooms and how to record important details, with suggestions for taking photographs and preparing spore prints. This book is only available through print on demand. All interior art is black and white.




Edible Mushrooms


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Edible Mushrooms was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The choicest varieties of mushrooms cannot be cultivated or commercially grown but are available in abundance to those who take the trouble to find them. With this book in hand, anyone can, with confidence, gather and enjoy delicious wild mushrooms without fear of the poisonous varieties. Edible Mushrooms, a new edition of the 1943 classic guide, Common Edible M.




Foraging Mushrooms Washington


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Detailed descriptions of edible mushrooms; tips on finding, preparing, and using mushrooms; a glossary of botanical terms; color photos. Use Foraging Mushrooms Washington as a field guide or as a delightful armchair read. No matter what you’re looking for, be it the curative Heal-All or a snack, this guide will enhance your next backpacking trip or easy stroll around the garden, and may just provide some new favorites for your dinner table.




Edible Mushrooms


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Wandering the woods in search of mushrooms is one of life’s great pleasures. But be careful to pick the right ones! With Edible Mushrooms in your backpack, you’ll know to pick only the safest, most delicious chanterelles, truffles, morels, and more. Author Barbro Forsberg presents forty edible species, and reveals how, when, and where to find them—knowledge gained over the course of four decades spent mushrooming in the woods. Discover such aspects of mushrooming as: • Characteristics of edible mushrooms, per species • Cooking, cleaning, and drying the day’s bounty • Edible, inedible, or toxic? Photographs and descriptions for what to pick and what to avoid • Poisonous varieties and how to recognize them All content has been verified by a professional mycologist. Plus, nature and educational photographs illustrate how mushrooms grow, the environments where you can expect to find them, and the ways in which the same species may vary from one sample to the next. So whether you’re an experienced mushroom hunter or a novice to the art, with Edible Mushrooms you can confidently recognize, pick, and eat the tastiest wild mushrooms.




Mushrooms


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Mushrooms Best Guide on Mushroom Foraging With Pictures Mushrooms are one of those foods that contain several health benefits that affect our body in a positive way. Mushrooms are high in nutritious value o because their characteristics include being low in calories and high in proteins, fiber, iron, zinc, amino acids, minerals, and minerals. Since the olden history, Chinese cuisine has been using mushroom in their diet due to its richness in the health content. Chinese believe that the nutrition and health benefits of mushrooms help to promote good health and vitality. A recent scientific study has confirmed all the health benefits of mushrooms. These studies have shown that mushroom help to strengthen our body and even improve our immune system. This is done by maintaining physiological homeostasis. Nutritional facts of mushrooms tend to differ from the type of mushrooms that are being consumed. Although all mushroom has significant health benefits for the human body and this book will help you understand all the positives about Mushrooms. The thing with Mushrooms is that you either love them, or you might hate them completely. It may be shocking that Mushrooms are a vegetable that tends to have hearty or meaty texture and the best part about them is that they can be used and served practically with every dish. Mushrooms can be served with stews, sides, soups, stir-fries, sandwiches and even salads. They are the best ingredient as it compliments breakfast, rice, bean dishes and can be made with sauces for pasta, meat, and noodles. As you will go through this book, you will understand all the benefits and the nutrients that Mushroom contains. Some of the chapters listed in this book are: Chapter 01: Best Foraging Tips for Mushrooms Chapter 02: Tips to Forage Mushrooms in summer Chapter 03: Mushroom Foraging in the Winter Season Chapter 04: Mushroom Foraging in the Spring and Autumn Chapter 05: Tips to Identify Poisonous Mushrooms




Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada


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This beautifully illustrated guidebook provides specific, easy-to-understand information on finding, collecting, identifying, and preparing the safer and more common edible and medicinal mushroom species of New England and Eastern Canada. Author David Spahr, a trained commercial photographer, here combines his mycological expertise and photographic skill to produce an attractive and detailed overview of his subject. Based on decades of practical experience and research, the book is written in a clear and forthright style that avoids the dry, generic descriptions of most field guides. Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada also provides useful ideas for cooking mushrooms. Rather than simply providing recipes, the book discusses the cooking characteristics of each variety, with advice about matching species with appropriate foods. Many mushrooms contain unique medicinal components for boosting the immune system to fight cancer, HIV, and other diseases, and Spahr offers practical and prudent guidelines for exploration of this rapidly emerging area of alternative therapeutic practice.




The Edible Mushroom


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