Mushrooming
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Mushrooming

The Joy of the Quiet Hunt – An Illustrated Guide to the Fascinating, the Delicious, the Deadly and the Strange

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mushrooming

The Joy of the Quiet Hunt – An Illustrated Guide to the Fascinating, the Delicious, the Deadly and the Strange

About this book

Foraging for wild mushrooms is an increasingly popular pursuit and this beautifully produced volume—filled with insights, anecdotes and details about more than 120 common and charismatic fungi from across the northern hemisphere—will appeal to everyone from beginner mushroomers to advanced mycophiles.

Mushrooming offers a new perspective on the fascinating, edible, deadly and strange world of fungi, from candy caps to earth stars, puff balls to poison pie, prized chanterelles, morels, hedgehogs and the bloodless destroying angel. There are mushrooms named after fairies and demons, little brown mushrooms that are wildly hallucinogenic, phallic specimens prized as aphrodisiacs, and mushrooms that are the colour of precious jewels. Some mushrooms look so much like woodland birds they are shot at by hunters, and others, incredibly, glow in the dark.

Walk along with award-winning artist and educator Diane Borsato and illustrator Kelsey Oseid as they inspire foragers at all levels to see the wondrousness of fungi wherever they are: in the forest, the city park or the local market.

Learn how mushrooming can radically expand our perspectives, connect us to nature and quietly enrich our lives.

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Table of contents

  1. Praise for Mushrooming:
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Publisher’s Note
  5. Table of Contents
  6. How to Use This Book
  7. Is It Edible?
  8. The Art of Mushrooming
  9. Artist’s conk
  10. Bird’s nest fungi
  11. Black truffle
  12. Black trumpet
  13. Bleeding tooth
  14. Blewit
  15. Blue stain fungus
  16. British soldiers lichen
  17. Candy cap
  18. Chaga
  19. Chanterelle
  20. The Chinatown Foray
  21. Crown coral
  22. Dead man’s fingers
  23. Deadly webcap
  24. Death cap
  25. Delicious milk cap
  26. Destroying angel
  27. Dog’s vomit slime mould
  28. Doll eyes
  29. Domestic cup
  30. Earthstar
  31. Eyelash fungus
  32. Fermenting Feminism
  33. Field mushroom
  34. Fly agaric
  35. FungiFest
  36. Ghost pipe
  37. Giant puffball
  38. Golden spindles
  39. Green-capped jelly babies
  40. Hedgehog mushroom
  41. Honey mushroom
  42. Indigo milk cap
  43. Infinity Burial Suit
  44. King bolete
  45. Lemon drops
  46. Liberty cap (magic mushroom)
  47. Lion’s mane
  48. Little brown mushrooms
  49. Lobster mushroom
  50. Matsutake
  51. The Metropolitan Museum Foray
  52. Mushroom Studio
  53. Old man of the woods
  54. Orange birch bolete
  55. Oyster mushroom
  56. Parasol mushroom
  57. Parrot waxy cap
  58. Pear-shaped puffball
  59. Pheasant’s back
  60. Plant pot dapperling
  61. Plums and custard
  62. Raccoon skull
  63. Satan’s bolete
  64. Scaly pholiota
  65. Scarlet cup
  66. Shaggy mane
  67. The sickener
  68. Skirted stinkhorn
  69. Sleeping Beauty (chrome-footed bolete)
  70. Soma
  71. Verdigris agaric
  72. White elfin saddle
  73. Witch’s butter
  74. Witch’s hat
  75. Wood ear
  76. Yellow morel and black morel
  77. Yellow swamp brittlegill
  78. Zooetics: Psychotropic House
  79. How to Host a Mushroom Foray
  80. A Mushroomer’s Manifesto
  81. Recommended Books and Websites
  82. Author Acknowledgements
  83. Illustrator Acknowledgements
  84. Index
  85. About the Author