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Novices eager to collect tasty wild mushrooms will find this unique guide invaluable. Unlike others, it focuses only on those types that are both safe to eat and delicious. Most important, it presents the eight rules of mushroom gathering in a straightforward fashion—including “Never, never take a mushroom with gills” and “If a mushroom smells rotten, it is rotten.” Among the many mushrooms covered are the cep; the red-cracked, larch, bay, and birch boletes; hen of the woods, chanterelle, trumpet chanterelle, hedgehog fungus, common puffball, horn of plenty, and cauliflower mushroom. Each is identified with several color photographs and identification checklist, and there’s also information on mushroom season, handling, storage, and cooking, complete with recipes.
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"This book takes the questionable mushrooms out of the equation in foraging. I had a great day mushroom hunting with this book by my side. I’m a beginner forager and trust me there’s a lot of fungi that may put you in the ER,so as a starting guide this is Awesome, direct to the point with easy identity. Have fun, great exercise, stay in the woods!"
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Mushrooming without Fear The Beginner Guide to Collecting Safe and Delicious Mushrooms Alexander Schwab 8601421458931 Books Reviews :
Mushrooming without Fear The Beginner Guide to Collecting Safe and Delicious Mushrooms Alexander Schwab 8601421458931 Books Reviews
- This book has phenomenal pictures of the mushrooms. Unfortunately that's all it has going for it.
Here, 128 pages are devoted to only 12 mushroom species. (Not mushroom "types" as is suggested on the rear cover, these are twelve particular species). Surprisingly little space is devoted to content. Consider
- 17 pages are title sheets with section titles, the table of contents, and a blank filler page
- 13 pages are devoted to explanation of, and multiple re-hashings, of 8 basic rules of collecting. One page, which begins with the words "Always remember..." is repeated FIVE TIMES. That's five copies of the same one-page reminder, which has also been thoroughly rehashed several times before.
The margins are extremely wide and the text is large. The photographs, while impressive, are sometimes accompanied by only one or two sentences per page. Some photographs have no text at all, and a few are repeated at different places in the book either by direct repetition or by Photoshop cropping or bunching.
Critical identification techniques (such as spore printing) are completely absent from this book. Identification instructions are so vague as to be almost impossible to use effectively. Although the photographs are outstanding, some of them are repeated to fill space. Mushrooms are seldom shown in the button stage.
Shockingly, the poisonous look-alikes are not actually shown. In some cases, key information about poisonous look-alikes is missing. For example, the Jack O' Lantern mushroom (which is identified in SOME field guides as having gills but which can often resemble the false gills or "ridges" of a chanterelle) is found almost exclusively on rotting wood. This so-called guide says that the chanterelle is found on the forest floor, but a key identification component for the mildly poisonous look-alike is omitted. (By "mildly poisonous", I mean an effect serious enough to require hospitalization but not necessarily fatal). The far more dangerous galerina mushrooms, which are also easily mistaken for chanterelles especially the trumpet chanterelles, are not mentioned.
The fact that at least some orange-capped boletes are mildly poisonous does not deter the author from recommending the orange birch bolete. Likewise, several blue-bruising and red boletes are toxic. The puffball is shown in cross section (as is appropriate) but the look-alike "Destroying Angel", one bite of which will cause liver failure in an adult, looks almost identical in its immature form. Most responsible authors provide at least a drawing of a baby amanita to show what it looks like before it bursts out of its volva. Immature agarics can also resemble puffballs (although agarics generally aren't quite as toxic as the death cap or destroying angel amanitas, which can and will kill you with one bite).
Some of the safety recommendations are overkill it is not necessary to cook all wild mushrooms for fear they have been contaminated by "dogs". If the mushroom has been soiled by a dog, don't pick it or eat it. Similarly, there is no mushroom so toxic that it is dangerous to touch or to cut with a knife. Instead of overstating the risks of touching the wrong mushroom, the author would have been better advised to at least draw a picture of the deadliest mushrooms in their button form, which is when they are most likely to be confused with edible ones.
Expect a lot of baby talk. The term "tummy ache" makes an appearance, as does an extended ramble about Santa Claus near the end of the book. Some of the information about fly agaric is just plain wrong the fly agaric found in Europe happens to be a different species from North American fly agaric, so the stories about berzerkers and Santa Claus (while amusing) are in reference to the wrong mushroom. Add to this the spelling errors and repetition, and you will see that the book was clearly not peer reviewed or even edited prior to publication. There is no index, and sources are not cited.
Note also that the author decided-- on page 102 of 128-- to redefine some basic North American geography. "Eastern North America" is assumed to be primarily north of Georgia, the "Pacific Northwest" is assumed to be Washington, Oregon, and parts of Idaho, and "California" refers to the Bay Area only. The Rocky Mountains and Midwest are completely ignored, as is the entire nation of Canada. This IS NOT A NORTH AMERICAN FIELD GUIDE.
This author most likely knows how to take a spore print and what an amatoxin is. Unfortunately he has oversimplified mushroom collection to the point where he is not providing enough identification information to safely identify the twelve desireable mushrooms in the book. This is ironic given the extent to which the author harps on safety.
If you want an actual North American field guide, the National Audubon Society is an excellent field guide, and Michael Kuo's "100 Edible Wild Mushrooms" will provide you with far more useful information. - Initially I thought this was a good guide, but after reading through it basically you are mushrooming without fear because you are only learning about mushrooms without gills. Boletes, polypores and Cantharellus species. While this may seem intriguing, please know that there are hundreds of species of Boletes in North America, some of which are poisonous. I'd recommend North American Boletes if you are interested in learning more about them, and I would highly recommend purchasing a field guide for your region for other species. Also be sure to learn how to do a spore print and get involved with your local mycolgical society as well as many mushroom identification Facebook pages.
- This is a VERY basic guide if you are just beginning to forage for mushrooms. Very...very basic. I can save you some money...don't pick anything with gills!! This book repeats this over and over...however, we all know that there are many good, edible mushrooms with gills. So, this leaves you wondering how other folks find all of these amazing mushrooms if they aren't taking ones with gills. There is a learning curve with mushrooming. You DO have to be careful what you pick! But this guide really leaves me flat with lack of knowledge...again, VERY BASIC guide.
- if your looking to get started in mushrooming ,your walking around the house or in the woods and you have passed by these little gems countless times . . . . .wondering . . . . .than this soft cover book is for you, It does not get carried away with information that we do not need and could care less about. It covers the mushrooms that you are seeing on your walks, colors . . .shapes . . .sizes...beautiful colored pictures and no could have should have and maybes. Book is an easy read for all, and I guarantee your going to add a few extra hours on to that walk of yours.
- I was advised to get this book from Facebook mushroom hunting West Virginia said it was great for beginners I highly recommend this and I will put it on their Facebook page thank you again very much, a lot more information than what is showed on these pictures
- This book takes the questionable mushrooms out of the equation in foraging. I had a great day mushroom hunting with this book by my side. I’m a beginner forager and trust me there’s a lot of fungi that may put you in the ER,so as a starting guide this is Awesome, direct to the point with easy identity. Have fun, great exercise, stay in the woods!
- So I get it.
a) Don't pick mushrooms with gills
GOOD GOD. The SAME RULES are repeated OVER AND OVER. I understand the importance of knowing the basic rules for mushrooming, but really, it was a bit over-the-top.
This did no good for mushrooming in northern MN. Perhaps in other areas of the country, but not mine. I still had to resort to online pictures to try to distinguish the mushrooms I harvested. - It's literally a rewrite or redo of Schwabs other book..Mushrooming with Confidence. Have both now and it's redundant but pictures are nice and rules are laid out simply for foraging. There are better books out there. Lincoff has the Audubon society field guide..now that's a book.
