The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised: Illustrated Guide to Foraging, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms - Including new sections on growing your own incredible edibles and off-season collecting

by Gary Lincoff

Overview

Mushroom guru Gary Lincoff escorts you through the cultural and culinary history of the mushroom, hunting and identifying wild mushrooms, mushroom safety, and on to preparing and serving the fungi.

Stunning photographs and Lincoff’s fascinating anecdotes from the field will make you an instant mycophile.

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, Revised will enrich your understanding of the natural world and build an appreciation for an ancient, critically relevant, and useful body of knowledge. With great expertise, Lincoff provides a complete overview of edible mushrooms: 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, 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, with information of psychedelic and psychotherapeutic mushrooms
• An illustrated guide to medicinal mushrooms
• Where to find your fare, and how to identify them
• How to prepare and serve your fungi
• Thirty delicious recipes

Five appendices offer even more mushroom knowledge, with information on how to make mushroom artwork, mushroom cultivation, less common edible varieties, and winter hunting; plus find an essential guide to major poisonous mushrooms, symptoms of poisoning, and treatment.

Whether you’re just starting out with the hobby or an experienced mycophile looking to add to your collection, The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised is your ideal guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631593017
Publisher:	Quarry Books
Publication date:	06/15/2017
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	212,278
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Chapter 1 Mushrooms: The What and the Who 8

Mushroom Poisoning and Health Hazards 10

Mycophilia and Mycophobia 11

World Markets 14

Chapter 2 Mushroom Hunting 20

Lawns 22

Backyards 25

A Local Park Mushroom Hunt 30

A Walk on the Wild Side: The Big Bad Woods 32

Essential Equipment 34

Extreme Mushrooms: Going for the Gold 39

Eating Like There's No Tomorrow 40

Chapter 3 Mushroom Identification 42

What Are Fungi? 44

What is a Mushroom? 44

Identifying Mushrooms Using All Our Senses 49

Worldwide Mushroom Field Groups 50

Morels 56

Truffles 66

Chanterelles 70

Black Trumpets 74

Tooth Fungi 76

Hedgehog (or Sweet Tooth) 80

Coral Fungi 82

Boletes 86

Polypores 91

Giant Puffball 98

Lobster Mushrooms 100

Jelly Fungi 102

Edible Gilled Mushrooms 104

Agaricus Mushrooms 109

Oyster Mushrooms 111

Honey Mushrooms 113

Shaggy Mane 116

Matsutakes 118

Shrimp Russula 120

Milk Caps 121

Blewits and Bluefoot 124

Poisonous Mushrooms 126

Psychedelic and Psychotherapeutic Mushrooms 149

Chapter 4 Medicinal Mushrooms 156

Chapter 5 Bringing Home the Harvest: Mushroom Recipes 168

Appendix I Mushroom Arts & Crafts 180

Appendix II Mushroom Cultivation 186

Appendix III Incredible Edibles 195

Appendix IV Winter Hunting 199

Appendix V Essential Guide to Major Posionous Mushrooms, Symptoms of Poisoning, and Treatment 202

Photo Credits 203

Resources 204

Acknowlegments 205

About the Author 206

Index 207