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Title: Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-To-Kitchen Guide
ISBN: 0292720793
Author:
David W. Fischer
Alan E. Bessette
Publicate Date: 1992-08
Publish: 1992-08
List Price: $40.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon Lowest Used Price: $17.94
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1: fantastic book! must buy for at least new england mushroom fans
Book just arrived and it's wonderful! I have MANY such i.d. books and get very frustrated when I can't find them in the book. This book has WONDERFUL PHOTOS and often shows them at various stages, angles and such. It's made it possible to recognize what I have been seeing for last few years. On another note the author has been wonderful PRIOR TO MY EVEN BUYING HIS BOOK. I had sent him photos to his web site (many, many photos) and he took the time to identify all that he safely could.
PLEASE IF YOU ARE AN AMATURE AND WANT TO LEARN PURCHASE THIS BOOK.
Can't wait to try the recipes. Might need to purchase the shrooms this time of year!
Thanks for a great book!!
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2: Mushrooms
"Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-to-kitchen Guide " (softcover). This is a great field guide and kitchen aid for anyone liking mushrooms. I highly recommend this book to any mushroom lover. But, always remember that recognizing mushrooms for consumption is an event that should take place once you have consulted experts. I joined a mushroom hunting and identification club, because there are many poisonous mushrooms that look similar to edible ones. Get on the internet and look up any mushroom clubs in your area.
Signed,
Gene A. Godlove
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3: MMMMMMMMMMMMMGood
Lovely photographs, excellent identity descriptions, tons of useful information and I love the recipes -- plan to make every one of them.
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4: Excellent Book For Novice Edible Mushroom Hunter
This is a concise easy to use book for people just starting to
hunt for edible mushrooms. It concentrates extensively on the edibles, and look alike poisonous. By eliminating 1000s of other mushrooms it is great for identifying the finest edibles. It makes a great companion to a more all encompassing publication. The recipes I've tried were good also.
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5: Limited scope, horrible recipes.
I bought this book many years ago as the first of what is now a fairly large collection on the subject. As the title indicates, it concentrates on the EDIBLE fungi, so the reviewer who was dissappointed because he/she could ID only one of the 13 mushrooms he/she found has unfair expectations out of the scope of this work. That said, only the most popular edibles seem to be listed here, and variants on those species are not covered in much depth. It's ok for those who just want to be able to distinguish a golden chanterelle from a jack-o-lantern, or a morel from a thimble-cap so they can safely gather some edibles. The worst thing about this book, however, is it's unfortunate recipes. Every single recipe I've tried from it completely sucks. Either the cooking method is inappropriate to that particular mushroom (turning delicate specimins to mush, for instance, or inundating absorptive ones with oil), or strong flavors from other ingredients overwhelm the sometimes subtle flavors of the mushrooms themselves. I get much better results by trusting my cooking intuition and experimenting than I do by following these recipes.
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