Mushrooms
An authoritative field guide to more than 450 species of wild mushrooms from around the world, Mushrooms shows the life cycle and features of a mushroom, what supplies are needed for mushroom foraging, and how to take a spore deposit. A phot...
The Ultimate Guide to Mushrooms
Everything You Could Ever Want to Know about Mushrooms! Mushrooms are an incredibly vast range of species, including all shapes and sizes and colors. This exciting collection includes a wealth of information on two hundred essential mushroom varieties, including their: * Scientific names * Habitats * Modes of development * Botanical specificities * Uses in culinary cuisine * And more! Spread throughout this book are hand-drawn illustrations and full-color photographs of every mushroom you can imagine. Whether you want to identify mushrooms, study mushrooms, or use edible mushrooms in your recipes, The Ultimate Guide to Mushrooms is for you!
Project Mushroom
Project Mushroom is the practical and beautiful guide to growing, displaying, cooking and identifying edible mushrooms. Mushrooms are good for us and for the environment: they are a sustainable, easy-to-grow food source and full of nutritional goodness. But they can also be attractive and useful additions to our homes and gardens - whether displayed in ceramic vases, on macrame or even used to make ink, paper or seed pots. In this book, mushroom experts Lorraine and Jodie Caley (aka the Caley Brothers) provide more than 30 projects so you can grow mushrooms at home.An extensive introduction de-mystifies mushrooms, explains their benefits (for our health and the environment) and gives you a mushroom-growing starter kitProvides simple, easy-to-follow techniques for growing all types of mushroomDiscover striking ways to display and use mushrooms in the home: make sustainable hanging decorations or display in a ceramic vaseLearn how to garden with mushrooms: make a mushroom bed or display varieties in seasonal containersExperiment with easy recipes for adding mushrooms to your store cupboard, including a Vitamin D boost, mushroom tincture and dried mushroom powderThis guide takes out the technical jargon, provides fascinating inspiration and answers all your burning questions. With so many ideas to explore, it demonstrates that mushroom growing doesn't have to be scary.Created in collaboration with the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and with an extensive introduction and a directory of mushrooms, this book is a must-have for any modern mushroom lover.
Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised
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 an...
Mushrooms
A beautiful and comprehensive guide to mushroom identification with over 1,250 detailed photographs of mushrooms and other fungi.
Mushroom
Best-selling author and professional chef Claire Thomson presents 80 nourishing recipes with mushrooms as the star of the show. Mushrooms are so versatile and packed with nutritional goodness. With so many different varieties to choose from, all with their own unique taste, they add umami and a depth of flavour to every dish. In the companion cookbook to Claire's award-winning Tomato, she draws inspiration from across the globe, showcasing recipes that will give you the confidence to cook with mushrooms time and time again. From a tasty Mushroom, Feta & Mint Gozleme and a warming Mushroom Biriyani to an elegant Mushroom & Asparagus Galette and an oozing Mushroom Gorgonzola Burger, in Mushroom there are recipes for every occasion and every mood.
The Mushroom Medicine Cabinet.
Learn how to improve your overall health and wellness, and discover an incredible number of healing powers that certain members of the mushroom family contain.Do mushrooms really possess medicinal properties that can help fight cancer, fatigue, respiratory problems, cognitive decline and a host of other incredible benefits? Mushrooms have been utilized for their medicinal benefits in traditional Asian medical practices for thousands of years, but up until now have failed to gain the recognition they deserve in Western society. In Japan, a world leader in the treatment of all forms of cancer, patients have been treated using Turkey Tail supplements since the 1980's. The Lion's Mane mushroom has been shown to prevent cognitive decline in studies with Alzheimer's patients. There are over 14,000 species of mushroom and of these around 70-80 are poisonous, and unfortunately these seem to steal the spotlight from their rather remarkable cousins, the medicinal mushrooms. There are a select
Mushrooms
Since the publication of the first edition, important developments have emerged in modern mushroom biology and world mushroom production and products. The relationship of mushrooms with human welfare and the environment, medicinal properties of mu...
Divine Mushrooms and Fungi
Filled with beautiful color photographs, Divine Mushrooms and Fungi is a must-have for anyone who wants to step into the magic mushroom field of ethnomycology. With detailed information on how to distinguish magic mushrooms from potentially danger...
Mushrooms Demystified
Nothing is more elusive and mysterious than the wild mushroom. David Arora celebrates the gathering and study of wild mushrooms with engaging style, wit, and simple technology. Mushrooms Demystified includes descriptions, photographs, and keys to over 2000 species.
Mushroom Botanical Art
The best-selling book of Mushroom Art is now available in a new luxury English edition Mushroom Botanical Art is a collection of mushroom and fungi paintings by European and Japanese naturalists in 18th to 19th century. The paintings each show the plant in its natural habitat and have been executed in a straightforward natural history illustration style with meticulous attention to detail. Beautiful color plate illustrations of each mushroom will attract both botanical art fans and lovers of mushrooms. It is pleasant to look and appreciate the beauty of these mushrooms, also useful for your own drawing and painting.
Mushroom Miscellany
Mushrooms have always had a global fan club. And that fanbase continues to spread - like the windswept spores of the colossal Honey Fungus. Mushroom Miscellany is a love letter to all things mushroom. This charmingly illustrated gift book explores...
Mushroom Magick
A fascinating and enlightening celebration of mushrooms and the magic of the forest for those who revel in mushroom imagery and lore. Mushrooms-as a decorative element, as a signifier of the mystery of the forest, and as an adorable emblem of witc...
Pocket Guide to Mushrooms
Pocket Guide to Mushrooms covers 158 of the most common mushrooms found in the UK and also in northern and central Europe. Each mushroom is identified and presented with expert photography in this informative yet highly portable book. It is as vis...
The Mushroom Guide & Identifer
FINALIST IN GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS 'MUSHROOMS' 2024 It is crucial that the most expert advice is taken when hunting for mushrooms, and this authoritative new handbook offers clear, practical information for accurate identification. A clear introduction explains everything a mushroom picker needs to know, followed by a fully-illustrated guide of the most popular edible wild mushrooms, with storage and cooking tips. Their identifying features and typical habitats are described. In addition the book presents and describes the poisonous and potentially deceptive species which the mushroom picker is most likely to come across.
How to Grow Mushrooms at Home
Learn about how you can be a part of 'fungiculture' and grow mushrooms at home for health and profit. This book explains how mushrooms grow, how to grow mushrooms, what mushrooms to grow, and the amazing health benefits of eating certain types of mushrooms. You will discover mushrooms are easy to grow and many have protein, B vitamins, minerals and some tout medicinal properties such as boosting the immune system, lowering cholesterol, and having a positive effect on certain cancers. In addition there are tips, methods, and insider techniques for growing mushrooms and marketing them. How to Grow Mushrooms at Home is the ultimate guide to indoor mushroom farming.
The Pocket Guide to Wild Mushrooms
Using practical symbol systems, distribution maps, and tips on picking, cleaning, cooking, and canning, this handbook will help you safely forage for a wide variety of mushrooms, including morels, black trumpets, chanterelles, sheep polypore, porcini, and many more. When you’re in the wild and you spot a nice-looking mushroom, how do you know if it is safe to eat? Question no more with the The Pocket Guide to Wild Mushrooms. This tiny companion is the perfect book to bring along when foraging for delectable fungi. Inside its neatly arranged pages are fifty-two edible mushrooms as well as the mushrooms with which they are often confused, whether edible or toxic. Beautiful photographs adorn the pages with mushrooms in the wild as well as picked, showing them from a multitude of angles. Study these photographs and you will become adept at recognizing edible and safe mushrooms. Even those who are unfamiliar with the mushroom forest can make a start at foraging with this instructional
Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition
A new edition of the classic, bestselling field guide to mushrooms from Peterson Field Guides. Peterson Field Guide To Mushrooms is a portable-sized field guide for mushroom identification--the ultimate, most comprehensive manual to mushrooms available. Toadstools, truffles, boletes and morels, witches' butter, conks, corals, puffballs and earthstars: mushrooms are both mysterious and ecologically essential. They can also be either delicious or deadly. Thousands of different species of mushrooms appear across North America in the woods, backyards, and in unexpected corners. Learning to distinguish them is a rewarding challenge for a naturalist or chef. Covering most of the common edible and poisonous species readers are likely to encounter, this portable-sized field guide takes a new, simple approach to the method of mushroom identification based on key features that do not require a microscope or technical vocabulary. In addition to the watercolors from the original edition, hundreds
Mushrooming Without Fear: The Beginner's Guide to Collecting Safe and Delicious Mushrooms
Is it safe or not? What gourmands and nature lovers need to know to harvest your own. Advice, with photographs, from an expert Novices eager to collect tasty wild mushrooms will find this unique guide invaluable. Unlike others, it focuses only on those types that are both safe to eat and delicious. Most importantly, it presents the eight rules of mushroom gathering in a straightforward fashion, including, 'Never, never take a mushroom with gills' and 'If a mushroom smells rotten, it is rotten.' Among the mushrooms covered are the cep; the red-cracked, larch, bay, and birch boletes; hen of the woods, chanterelle, trumpet chanterelle, hedgehog fungus, common puffball, horn of plenty, and cauliflower mushroom. Each is identified with several photographs and identification checklist, and there's also information on mushroom season, handling, storage, and cooking, complete with recipes.
Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion
Discover the transformational power of psilocybin mushroom with this all-encompassing guide to harnessing magic mushrooms safely and effectively.Thanks to cutting-edge research, the medical and mental health communities are rediscovering the trans...
John Cage: A Mycological Foray
Foraging for mushrooms with John Cage: writing, art, photography and ephemera from an idiosyncratic chapter in the composer's life Imagined as an extended mushroom-foraging expedition, John Cage: A Mycological Foray gathers together Cages...
