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Wild Mushrooms: A Cookbook and Foraging Guide
Get ready to fall in love with wild mushrooms! Absolutely everything you need to know to make mushrooming a lifestyle choice.
Packed with content and lore from more than 20 skilled foragers around the country, Wild Mushrooms will help mushroom hunters successfully utilize their harvest, and includes practical information on transporting, cleaning, and preserving their finds. One of the best things about cooking wild mushrooms is that every time you open your dried caches, their unique aroma recalls your foraging experience creating an immediate and visceral connection back to the forest. There is no finer way to appreciate food.
You will not only learn the best ways to locate, clean, collect, and preserve your mushrooms from the experts, the book will also discuss safety and edibility, preservation techniques, mushroom sections and flavor profiles, and more. Recipes will be categorized by mushroom species, with 115 recipes in total.
Recipes
Winter salad with warm chanterelle bacon vinaigrette
Trent’s famous chanterelle duxelles
Curry puffs with pickled porcini slaw
Long life reishi tea
Chanterelle & apricot ice cream
Maitake stroganoff
And more!
From pickling to rich duxelles, soups, salads, and even mushroom teas, tinctures, jams, and ice cream, these recipes and invaluable insider tips will delight everyone from the most discerning mycophiles to brand new fungus fanatics.
Packed with content and lore from more than 20 skilled foragers around the country, Wild Mushrooms will help mushroom hunters successfully utilize their harvest, and includes practical information on transporting, cleaning, and preserving their finds. One of the best things about cooking wild mushrooms is that every time you open your dried caches, their unique aroma recalls your foraging experience creating an immediate and visceral connection back to the forest. There is no finer way to appreciate food.
You will not only learn the best ways to locate, clean, collect, and preserve your mushrooms from the experts, the book will also discuss safety and edibility, preservation techniques, mushroom sections and flavor profiles, and more. Recipes will be categorized by mushroom species, with 115 recipes in total.
Recipes
Winter salad with warm chanterelle bacon vinaigrette
Trent’s famous chanterelle duxelles
Curry puffs with pickled porcini slaw
Long life reishi tea
Chanterelle & apricot ice cream
Maitake stroganoff
And more!
From pickling to rich duxelles, soups, salads, and even mushroom teas, tinctures, jams, and ice cream, these recipes and invaluable insider tips will delight everyone from the most discerning mycophiles to brand new fungus fanatics.
599 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 20, 2020
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March 31, 2025
My good friend gave me this and its wonderful! I love mycology and this book has great information and photos and it’s a fun read.
November 26, 2025
How can you go wrong with mushrooms?
September 24, 2021
this is a great book to understand cooking , foraging mushrooms and enjoying the taste, colorful pics and a great resource , recommend this a great cookbook ,
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