Good Mushroom Bad Mushroom: Who's Who, Where to Find Them, and How to Enjoy Them Safely - Spiral

by John Plischke (Author)

Let's go out and hunt mushrooms! Foraging for wild mushrooms is one of the most enjoyable and delicious of family activities.

Good Mushroom Bad Mushroom is a friendly, authoritative field guide to hunting and eating wild mushrooms, including (importantly) how to identify the edible ones and avoid the toxic ones. Mushroom expert John Plischke considers 50 of the most interesting and noteworthy mushrooms out there, with full-color photos throughout and generous helpings of mushroom recipes. An attractive gift book for beginners and old-timers alike - adults as well as curious kids - Good Mushroom Bad Mushroom features heavy matte-laminated pages and concealed-wire binding for handy use outside.

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Better Safe Than Sorry

Rule #1 for wild mushroom hunting: You can't afford to gamble when it comes to accurate identification - telling the edible ones from look-alikes that could make you sick or worse.

GOOD MUSHROOM, BAD MUSHROOM is the essential wild mushroom field guide, by one of the top mycologists in North America. John Plischke's informative, easy-to-read text and award-winning photographs take the guesswork out of identifying wild mushrooms. And when you get it right, there's no better eating than a fresh, wild Morel. For an added treat, John brings you from field to kitchen with some of his favorite mushroom recipes.

Author Biography

John Plischke III has been hunting mushrooms for over 40 years. He is well known throughout the United States and Canada, having given hundreds of mushroom programs to schools, parks, mushroom clubs and other groups. He is the recipient of more than 80 national and regional awards for his mushroom photography. In 2000, he founded the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club with just 14 members. The club is now one of the largest mushroom clubs in the United States. John has received the North American Mycological Association's (NAMA) Knighton Service Award. He is the author of Morel Mushrooms and Their Poisonous Look A Likes, has edited two cookbooks of the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club and has been a contributor to many other mushroom books. John is a trustee and faculty member for both NAMA and the North East Mycological Federation. He is one of the editors for Fungi Magazine and is chairman of the fungus section of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey