
Mushrooming
The Joy of the Quiet Hunt â An Illustrated Guide to the Fascinating, the Delicious, the Deadly and the Strange
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Mushrooming
The Joy of the Quiet Hunt â 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 volumeâfilled with insights, anecdotes and details about more than 120 common and charismatic fungi from across the northern hemisphereâwill 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
- Praise for Mushrooming:
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Publisherâs Note
- Table of Contents
- How to Use This Book
- Is It Edible?
- The Art of Mushrooming
- Artistâs conk
- Birdâs nest fungi
- Black truffle
- Black trumpet
- Bleeding tooth
- Blewit
- Blue stain fungus
- British soldiers lichen
- Candy cap
- Chaga
- Chanterelle
- The Chinatown Foray
- Crown coral
- Dead manâs fingers
- Deadly webcap
- Death cap
- Delicious milk cap
- Destroying angel
- Dogâs vomit slime mould
- Doll eyes
- Domestic cup
- Earthstar
- Eyelash fungus
- Fermenting Feminism
- Field mushroom
- Fly agaric
- FungiFest
- Ghost pipe
- Giant puffball
- Golden spindles
- Green-capped jelly babies
- Hedgehog mushroom
- Honey mushroom
- Indigo milk cap
- Infinity Burial Suit
- King bolete
- Lemon drops
- Liberty cap (magic mushroom)
- Lionâs mane
- Little brown mushrooms
- Lobster mushroom
- Matsutake
- The Metropolitan Museum Foray
- Mushroom Studio
- Old man of the woods
- Orange birch bolete
- Oyster mushroom
- Parasol mushroom
- Parrot waxy cap
- Pear-shaped puffball
- Pheasantâs back
- Plant pot dapperling
- Plums and custard
- Raccoon skull
- Satanâs bolete
- Scaly pholiota
- Scarlet cup
- Shaggy mane
- The sickener
- Skirted stinkhorn
- Sleeping Beauty (chrome-footed bolete)
- Soma
- Verdigris agaric
- White elfin saddle
- Witchâs butter
- Witchâs hat
- Wood ear
- Yellow morel and black morel
- Yellow swamp brittlegill
- Zooetics: Psychotropic House
- How to Host a Mushroom Foray
- A Mushroomerâs Manifesto
- Recommended Books and Websites
- Author Acknowledgements
- Illustrator Acknowledgements
- Index
- About the Author