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Edible Mushrooms Geoff Dann

Edible Mushrooms By Geoff Dann

Edible Mushrooms by Geoff Dann


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Summary

This most comprehensive guide to foraging for wild mushrooms describes the best tasting fungi, where to find them and how to detect poisonous lookalikes.

Edible Mushrooms Summary

Edible Mushrooms: A Forager's Guide to the Wild Fungi of Britain, Ireland and Europe by Geoff Dann

An up-to-date, comprehensive and brilliantly illustrated book on fungi foraging in Britain and Europe. It covers every known edible species, and all the poisonous groups, as well as a few very common species and a handful of mushrooms included for their interesting or unusual characteristics.

  • Identify edible and poisonous mushrooms.
  • Distinguish between 'lookalike' species.
  • Know when is the best time and place to hunt for each species.
  • Identify edible species which should be left alone because they are threatened
  • Photos show each species in its natural habitat, to aid identification.

Perfect for all ability levels - from absolute beginner to the experienced fungi forager who'd like to become an expert. Each edible species is ranked according to its difficulty/danger level, so beginners can start with the easiest ones, while experienced foragers can learn how to safely forage for the trickier species that other mushroom foraging guides leave out.

Edible Mushrooms Reviews

Written by a master of mycology who deeply loves fungus, its habitats and its quirks.

-- Tim Maddams, Chef, TV presenter, Cookery writer

Geoff knows his stuff and puts it across in an easily accessible manner. This will be coming on all my fungi forages!

-- Gary Johnston, Co-founder and Instructor at Jack Raven Bushcraft

A must-have guide for anyone who likes to try edible fungi and wants to extend their knowledge. Everything you need to know in preparation for foraging proper with a high-quality photographic index, which covers 'botanical' description, smell, taste, habitat, gill type, distribution and season and whether edible or not. The book covers safety and equipment, culture, science and ethics of foraging, the law and a code of conduct for mushroom collectors as well as methods of preserving, preparing and cooking fungi.

-- Penny Jones, Propagator, Westonbirt, The National Arboretum

Bursting with quality photos and great information, achieving the "balance between caution and adventure that a forager needs", this book is an absolute must for foragers. Put the book in your rucksack, head outside, and let it guide you on safe, fun, mind-, heart-, and stomach-expanding fungal adventures.

-- Fergus Drennan aka Fergus The Forager

A fascinating, wise companion on the journey into the extraordinary and delicious world of fungi. Come autumn, it will accompany every foray I make into the woods, and my life, and my frying pan, will be vastly richer because of it.

-- Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement

About Geoff Dann

Geoff Dann is a foraging expert, often on radio and TV to give advice on fungi. He teaches chefs, bushcrafters, food enthusiasts and amateur sleuths to hunt sensibly and sustainably for wonderful mushrooms.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Fungi and foraging

1. What are fungi?

2. How to identify fungi

3. Where and when to find fungi

4. Safety and equipment

5. Culture and laws

6.Poisonous fungi

7. Edible fungi

Part II: The fungi

How to use this guide

Visual Index

Species guide

Glossary

References

Resources

Index

Photograph credits

Additional information

NGR9780857843975
9780857843975
0857843974
Edible Mushrooms: A Forager's Guide to the Wild Fungi of Britain, Ireland and Europe by Geoff Dann
New
Paperback
Green Books
2016-10-20
512
N/A
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