Wild About Mushrooms

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Summary: The Mycologist as Chef, not as far-fetched as it sounds.
Review: These folks know mushrooms, which you would expect, but beyond that they are clearly dedicated to good food and know a thing or two about flavors and ingredients. This book can be enjoyed on several levels: as a useful reference on mushroom types, collecting, cultivation and so on; as an introduction to the more unusual mushrooms that are beginning to show up in our upscale markets and how to select and prep them for cooking; and as a quite sophisticated cookbook with recipes for Common Store Mushrooms as well as Truffles, and everything in between. What's "in between" is increasingly available and tantalising to the adventuresome chef, and this book is the roadmap to adventure by way of Chanterelles, Shaggy Manes, Boletes, and my personal favorites Volvariella Volvacea, also known as Straw Mushrooms, the little dancing mushrooms in Walt Disney's Fantasia. Great book with very nice illustrations and typesetting in two colors, rather elegant.