Celebrating the wild mushroom
Subtitle: a passionate quest
By: Sara Ann Friedman ; illustrations by Diana Jacobs.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Mushrooms; Mushrooms -- Folklore; Mushrooms -- United States -- Identification; Cookery (Mushrooms)
First sentence: Once I was standing at the base of a giant redwood in northern California.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 263-265.
Table of contents: label: I
title: The Hunt
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: The First Bite
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: Morels, May Apples, and the Meaning of Life
pagenum: 13; label: 3
title: Origins
pagenum: 28; label: 4
title: Amanitae Everywhere
pagenum: 40; label: 5
title: What's One Person's Poison...
pagenum: 55; label: 6
title: ...Is Another's Meat
pagenum: 74; label: 7
title: The Mushroom Foray: Celebration of the Harvest
pagenum: 88; label: 8
title: Spore Trek
pagenum: 102; label: 9
title: Under the Autumn Leaves
pagenum: 117; label: 10
title: The Mushroom Connection
pagenum: 129; label: 11
title: Curiouser and Curiouser
pagenum: 149; label: 12
title: The Last Foray
pagenum: 165; label: II
title: From the Woods to the Kitchen: Hints on Hunting, Identifying, Cooking, and Surviving
pagenum: 181; label: 13
title: Introduction to the Field
pagenum: 183; title: A Sharp Eye, a Delicate Touch, and a Strong Nose
pagenum: 183; title: The Gilled Mushrooms
pagenum: 185; title: Boletes
pagenum: 187; title: Corals
pagenum: 189; title: Cup Fungi
pagenum: 189; title: Polypores
pagenum: 191; title: Puffballs and Earthstars
pagenum: 191; title: Stinkhorns
pagenum: 193; title: Tooth Fungi
pagenum: 195; label: 14
title: Twenty Edibles
pagenum: 196; title: The Aborted Entoloma (Entoloma abortivum)
pagenum: 202; title: American Matsutake (Armillaria ponderosa)
pagenum: 204; title: Black Trumpet (Craterellus fallax or Craterellus cornucopioidus)
pagenum: 206; title: Blewit (Lepista nuda or Clitocybe nuda)
pagenum: 208; title: Chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius)
pagenum: 209; title: Chicken Mushroom (Laetiporus sulphureus)
pagenum: 212; title: Fairy-Ring Mushroom (Marasmius oreades)
pagenum: 216; title: Hedgehog Mushroom (Dentinum repandum)
pagenum: 219; title: Hen-of-the-Woods (Grifola frondosa)
pagenum: 220; title: Honey Mushroom (Armillariella mellea)
pagenum: 223; title: King Bolete, or Cep (Boletus edulis)
pagenum: 226; title: Lobster Mushroom (Hypomyces lactifluorum)
pagenum: 230; title: Meadow Mushroom (Agaricus campestris)
pagenum: 232; title: Morel (Morchella esculenta or deliciosa)
pagenum: 234; title: Orange Milky (Lactarius deliciosus)
pagenum: 238; title: Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus or sapidus)
pagenum: 240; title: Parasol (Lepiota procera)
pagenum: 243; title: Puffbball (Lycoperdon pyriforme)
pagenum: 246; title: Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus)
pagenum: 248; title: Shitake (Lentinus edodes)
pagenum: 251; label: 15
title: Poisonous Mushrooms
pagenum: 254; title: Death Caps and Destroying Angel (Amanitae phalloides, virosa, bisporigera, verna, and ocreata)
pagenum: 255; title: Deadly Galerinae (Galerinae autumnalis, marginata, and venenata)
pagenum: 257; title: False Morel (Gyromitra esculenta)
pagenum: 257; title: Jack O'Lantern (Omphalotus olearius)
pagenum: 259; title: The Sweater (Clitocybe dealbata)
pagenum: 260; title: The Green-Spored lepiota (Chlorophyllum molybidites)
pagenum: 261; label: III
title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 263; title: Selected Field Guides
pagenum: 265