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by Patrick Harding (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Collins (7 Aug 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 000721507X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007215072
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 15 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 92,085 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to identify, pick and cook edible mushrooms. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with colour photos and expert advice throughout. From identifying and picking edible mushrooms to growing your own mushrooms, from recipes for seasonal dishes to important information on poisonous species, this book provides all the helpful information you need to relish the exhilarating experience of collecting wild mushrooms. An introduction to what fungi is and where you can find mushrooms (as well as issues of access and trespass, bye-laws etc), it also covers all the equipment you might need and how to dry, pickle and preserve your mushrooms. Over 75 of the best edible species with warnings about poisonous lookalikes are detailed, along with advice on where you will find them and when, and recipes for seasonal dishes. Finally, the book covers growing your own mushrooms (and the kits available), the food value and medicinal uses of fungi, hallucinogenic mushrooms (and the law), and fungi in folklore.


About the Author

After gaining his doctorate by growing grass on coal tips, Patrick Harding enjoyed over 25 years as a university lecturer. He now runs numerous courses and works with the BBC on programmes about herbal medicine, wild flowers, mushrooms, and trees. Patrick is the author of 'Gem Mushrooms' and 'How to ID Edible Mushrooms', and has had years of experience, lecturing and leading groups on fungal forays. He was recently filmed with Richard and Judy for a BBC 2 series.

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2.0 out of 5 stars does not tell me: what am I looking at?, 2 Nov 2007
By xtina.r (London) - See all my reviews
There may be a place for this book in the comfort of your own home, perusing it and pondering about mushroom hunting. However, when you have it with you - in the forest - looking at a mushroom, what you need is a book that answers the question: What am I looking at?

This book does *not* answer that question.

other points:
- You don't really need a book to tell you everything and more on what a bolete looks like - you wouldn't go mushroom hunting if you don't know what they look like. So why waste the largest chapter of the book on it. ( I am not saying ignore them or the comparison to the devils bolete and how to identify it - but you don't need 1/5 of the book for that.)
- It gives so much random information that is fine and dandy but really: what am I looking at? The pictures are not clear enough
- the book is called mushroom hunting - not 'the history of mushrooms and other musings - so I want something that helps me with the hunting of mushrooms - not the other stuff

sorry, very disappointing. I went mushroom hunting with the book and left lots standing because I was unsure and could not find an answer in the book. So went with the ones I knew for sure - and for that I could have left the book at home


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5.0 out of 5 stars Mushroom Hunting (Collins Need to Know?), 29 Oct 2006
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Lovely book with beautiful illustrations. Written in a modern style. The book is slightly focused on an "all you need to know about mushrooms" but is interesting enough for anyone to read. All I was looking for was: how to identify mushrooms I meet walking through the woods; and can I eat it. This book tell you this but there might be simpler ones out there. Nice book.
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