Wild edible mushrooms
Subtitle: tips and recipes for every mushroom hunter
By: Hope Miller
Publisher: FalconGuides
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780762771431
Subjects: Mushrooms; NATURE / Plants / Mushrooms; COOKING / General; Cooking (Mushrooms); COOKING / Specific Ingredients / Vegetables
Description: "Wild Edible Mushrooms aids mushroom hunters and armchair naturalists alike with finding, harvesting, preparing, and enjoying North American wild mushrooms. Detailed descriptions and color photos of forty edible mushrooms-including scientific and common names, habitat, odor, taste, fruiting time, and more-are accompanied by more than 100 mushroom recipes. Hope Miller's introduction includes reasons to make mushrooms part of one's diet (nutrients, medicinal, taste, cost), cautions (allergies and toxins), tips on caring for and preparing mushrooms (drying, freezing, preserving, canning, pickling), and illustrations to help identify different parts of each mushroom"--

"From the author of North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Wild Mushrooms, WILD EDIBLE MUSHROOMS aids mushroom hunters to armchair naturalists with finding, harvesting, preparing, and enjoying North American wild mushrooms. Detailed descriptions and color photos of 40 edible mushrooms (including scientific and common names, habitat, odor and taste, fruiting time, and more) are accompanied by recipes that feature each mushroom. This book will also include introductory material detailing the scope of the book, illustrations to help identify different types of mushroom, reasons to make mushrooms part of your diet (nutrients, medicinal, taste, cost), cautions (allergies and toxins), and tips on caring for and preparing mushrooms (drying, freezing, preserving, canning, pickling)"--