How to Forage for Mushrooms Without Dying: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Identifying 29 Wild, Edible Mushrooms

By Frank Hyman

Book Overview

In this accessible, photographic guide for the beginner forager, professional mushroom hunter Frank Hyman teaches how to definitively identify 29 of the most readily available, edible mushrooms.

With the surging interest in foraging for mushrooms, those new to the art need a reliable guide to distinguishing the safe fungi from the toxic. But for beginner foragers who just want to answer the question "Can I eat it?", most of the books on the subject are dry, dense, and written by mycologists for other mycologists.

Frank Hyman to the rescue How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying is the book for anyone who walks in the woods and would like to learn how to identify just the 29 edible mushrooms they're likely to come across. In it, Hyman offers his expert mushroom foraging advice, distilling down the most important information for the reader in colorful, folksy language that's easy to remember when in the field. Want an easy way to determine if a mushroom is a delicious morel or a toxic false morel? Slice it in half - "if it's hollow, you can swallow," Hyman says. With Frank Hyman's expert advice and easy-to-follow guidelines, readers will be confident in identifying which mushrooms they can safely eat and which ones they should definitely avoid.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635863325
• ISBN13: 9781635863321
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Shrooms for food

HOW TO FORAGE FOR MUSHROOMS WITHOUT DYING by Frank Hyman As the title implies, this is a very interesting book. People ask all the time if the mushrooms you see growing wild are edible. I happen to be married to a Shiitake mushroom grower, so I have all the mushrooms I'll ever need. I think this book would be a very handy resource to have, in the event of an apocalyptic event, if food becomes hard to attain. Everyone would become a forager and it would be awesome to know what mushrooms are edible and which are not. We live in the woods and are always on the lookout for morels. I have known people who hunt all of the wild mushrooms for food and fun. The author gives expert advice as to what you are looking for and what to avoid when hunting for mushrooms. Highly recommend. Much gratitude to #netgalley for the complimentary copy of #howtoforageformushroomswithoutdying I was under no obligation to post a review.