Product Description

Explains the ins and outs of collecting, including relevant UK laws, conservation notes, practical tips and identification techniques. This book includes 72 species we are most likely to come across during forays in Britain's forests and clearings. It also contains more than 30 simple mushroom recipes with colour photographs. In the first of a very exciting new River Cottage Handbook series, expert John Wright uncovers the secret habits and habitats of Britain's thriving mushrooms - and the team at River Cottage explains how to cook them to perfection.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1791 in Books
• Brand: Books
• Published on: 2007-09-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
'The best guide to gathering and eating wild mushrooms there has ever been' Independent

BBC Country File
He gives plenty of vital tips about identifying different species and how not to poison yourself.

Highland News
This new book on mushrooms is one of the best I have read.

Customer Reviews

A hunting we will go...
My wife had a mushroom epiphany last year when stood in the middle of a wood in the Chilterns surrounded by all sorts of Fungi: If we were able to tell which was deadly poisonous and which deliciously edible, we could pick away to our hearts content, dash home and make soups and pâtés and all sorts of mushroomy things for weeks to come! As it was, we didn't know a toadstall from a chanterelle and returned home empty-handed, but therein resolved to investigate what guidebooks were on offer. We were rather disappointed by the rather earnest, flatly-written books we found, often with rather dated illustrations or an absence of recipes (surely the point of cooking them is eating them!) and absolutely no sense of the fun and excitement that might be had foraging for your dinner of an autumn afternoon. So we never got around to it. But as this autumn approaches, we were reminded of the coming mushroom season by the Guardian's River Cottage Mushroom guide (bascially a little taster of the book itself) and immediately realised that the handbook was just what we were looking for. And so it arrived in the post full of lovely pictures, concise descriptions and brilliant recipes all bound together by John Wright's strangely humourous writing style (parts are actually laugh-out-loud funny.) We went out to Hampstead Heath yesterday and immediately found a good hoard with which which we made some fantastic mushroom tart. We're hoping it will become a regular jaunt over the coming months and it's all thanks to this great little book.

Fascinating fungi.
I was attracted by the cover of this handy sized guide to mushrooms and was even more impressed by the content. It has inspired me to overcome my fear of making a fatal error and try mushroom hunting. The photographs alone are wonderful. The text is informative, amusing(definately lol!) and full of fascinating historical, medical and fungal facts. The detailed descriptions of individual species make me feel quite confident about identification and the selection of tempting-sounding recipes which follow add to the appeal of this useful and attractive book.

An excellent book - and small enough to carry in your pocket..
I have most of the funghi and mushroom guides available and I've been mushrooming for over 20 years. The photos are excellent and John Wright's writing is really entertaining - he actually made me laugh out loud!
Probably the best written guide around.
It even surpasses my other favourite right now, 'Setas de Galicia' which does beat it for lurid fungal photos, but is so heavy that it slows me down on the chase for a particularly good cep.