The Ultimate Guide to Mushrooms: How to Identify and Gather Over 200 Species Throughout North America and Europe

by Guillaume Eyssartier, Julien Norwood (Illustrator), Grace McQuillan (Translator)

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
  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!
 

Genres: Nonfiction, Cooking, Nature

344 pages, Hardcover

Published May 5, 2020

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Ultimate Guide to Mushrooms: How to Identify and Gather Over 200 Species Throughout North America and Europe, by Guillaume Eyssartier is an excellent encyclopedia of mushroom species with an eye for distinguishing toxic mushrooms from edible ones, and a small section on more bizarre and interesting mushrooms. The book gives a brief overview of some methods of identification, including sacs, spore print, and the usefulness of cutting, amongst others. The book also focuses on the culinary usefulness of mushrooms, with some important tips, like "Never eat a mushroom you are not 100% sure about" and "Do not eat edible mushrooms in large quantities - they can still be toxic by accumulation" among many others. The focus on the taste and culinary properties of the mushrooms in this book, as well as common mistakes that are made in mixing up look-alikes, makes this book rather unique. It is also well illustrated, and detailed in terms of the properties and identifiers of each species, with some fun facts. I enjoyed this as a coffee table read, and would recommend it to those interested in mushrooms and plant identification.

[Mary Foxe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Skimmed.

[Emmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

would love a dichotomous key but beautiful illustrations and information! i wish they’d given their definition of “inedible” and “deadly” because it’s all relative…