He has written many articles for popular magazines as well as several books including Maitake Mushroom and D-Fraction (2004). This new 64-page book takes a narrow and shallow, consumer-oriented view of the role of mushrooms in health. The book begins with a little background on the mushroom kingdom then offers an overview of the culinary, nutritional and medicinal value of mushrooms in general. The second section of the book addresses the following mushrooms in a page or so each: