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Mushroom Miscellany: An Illustrated Guide Featuring Fun Facts, Mushroom Profiles, Recipes & More
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 the fantastical world of the mushroom – featuring profiles, fun facts, recipes, and more.
Over 80 species of fungi glow in the dark
The world’s oldest mushroom is 810 million years old
Bigger than a blue whale, the largest organism of any type in the world is the 2,384-acre Armillaria mushroom in Oregon
Mushrooms are one of the world’s most sustainably produced food sources, requiring minimal space, energy, and water
With imaginative names such as Witches' Butter and Jelly Ear, Chicken of the Woods and Beefsteak, mushrooms have been at the heart of medicine, folklore, cookery, and science throughout history and across cultures. Foragers, artists, scientists, healers, and chefs have been drawn to mushrooms for their implausible aesthetics, incredible healing abilities, mind-altering power, versatile flavour, and magical potential.
CONTENTS
• Mushroom Miscellany
• Mushroom Profiles
• Fungi Fun Facts
• Mushroom Recipes
• Additional Resources
Mushroom Miscellany is a love letter to all things mushroom. This charmingly illustrated gift book explores the fantastical world of the mushroom – featuring profiles, fun facts, recipes, and more.
Over 80 species of fungi glow in the dark
The world’s oldest mushroom is 810 million years old
Bigger than a blue whale, the largest organism of any type in the world is the 2,384-acre Armillaria mushroom in Oregon
Mushrooms are one of the world’s most sustainably produced food sources, requiring minimal space, energy, and water
With imaginative names such as Witches' Butter and Jelly Ear, Chicken of the Woods and Beefsteak, mushrooms have been at the heart of medicine, folklore, cookery, and science throughout history and across cultures. Foragers, artists, scientists, healers, and chefs have been drawn to mushrooms for their implausible aesthetics, incredible healing abilities, mind-altering power, versatile flavour, and magical potential.
CONTENTS
• Mushroom Miscellany
• Mushroom Profiles
• Fungi Fun Facts
• Mushroom Recipes
• Additional Resources
- GenresNatureNonfictionScience
144 pages, Hardcover
Published November 19, 2024
About the author
Adele Nozedar
25 books35 followersAdele Nozedar has enjoyed a varied career, spanning TV presentation, being in a cult indie band, running highly-successful record labels (both independent and major) and a PR company, exhibiting her photography, writing soundtracks, and being owner/manager of a remote residential recording studio.
But the thread which underscores all these facets is an interest in matters occult and arcane; this might be as a result of having self-professed ‘wise women’ on both sides of the family.
Adele’s particular awakening to the language of birds, and their healing powers, came during her recovery from an operation, when a small hawk called a merlin appeared, which surprisingly allowed itself to be handled; although the bird disappeared after her recovery, it reappears from time to time. It was this incident which sparked a sudden realisation that birds can be the conduits to a ‘higher’ form of communication, a window to a world without words, particularly appropriate since she was deaf until the age of 7 and believes that this phase of her life has had a profound effect upon the rest of it.
Adele belongs to the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and is a healer and colour therapist. She is the author of the Illustrated Signs & Symbols Sourcebook.
But the thread which underscores all these facets is an interest in matters occult and arcane; this might be as a result of having self-professed ‘wise women’ on both sides of the family.
Adele’s particular awakening to the language of birds, and their healing powers, came during her recovery from an operation, when a small hawk called a merlin appeared, which surprisingly allowed itself to be handled; although the bird disappeared after her recovery, it reappears from time to time. It was this incident which sparked a sudden realisation that birds can be the conduits to a ‘higher’ form of communication, a window to a world without words, particularly appropriate since she was deaf until the age of 7 and believes that this phase of her life has had a profound effect upon the rest of it.
Adele belongs to the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and is a healer and colour therapist. She is the author of the Illustrated Signs & Symbols Sourcebook.
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November 10, 2024
A lovely reading experience for a mushroom fan 🍄
Also if you aren't a mushroom fan, still read it as mushrooms are fun guys x
Also if you aren't a mushroom fan, still read it as mushrooms are fun guys x
February 14, 2026
mushrooms are the best food ever 🍄🤤
December 25, 2024
I got this in my Christmas stocking this morning and got to reading. It’s a quick read, there aren’t as many recipes as I would’ve liked but the fun facts and descriptions were fabulous. I enjoyed the artwork immensely. I look forward to taking it out with me into the forest and woods around me this spring.
May 26, 2025
This book was so informative and amazing. Short and to the point perfect. And the illustrations are just beautiful. 🍄🟫🍄
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