How To Forage For Mushrooms Without Dying

Forging for mushrooms offers a wonderful reward, but can come with high risks, and disastrous results if mistakes are made. Those new to the art mushroom foraging need a reliable guide to distinguish what's safe from what can kill you without having to churn through dry, dense, texts written by mycologists for other mycologists.

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 most easily identifiable edible mushroom varieties they’re likely to come across - including expert mushroom foraging advice, distilled down to the most important information in colourful, 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,” author Frank Hyman says. With 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.

Softcover
256 pages with colour photographs