All That the Rain Promises and More...
An illustrated guide to identifying 200 Western mushrooms - whether edible, poisonous, or medicinal - by their key features. "In leafing through these pages, you may wonder what all the 'fanciful,' 'foolish,' or (shudder) 'extraneous' material is doing in a factual guide. After all, it is the practical, hands-on, how-to-identify information that makes this book useful and gives it substance. But I ask: is it any stranger or less desirable to sprinkle the facts with flakes of fancy than it is to liven up solemn, substantial fare like potatoes with something fancier and more flavorful, like wild mushrooms?" - David Arora
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- Hot takes aside, if you're looking for great foraging books, I'd suggest anything by David Arora, such as "All That the Rain Promises and More" and "Mushrooms Demystified". The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms is, of course, pretty good too.
Outside of identification, "Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares" and "Radical Mycology" are good reads too.
- came here to suggest "All That the Rain Promises and More". it's a fantastic book with spore identification as well.
thanks to that book, I've eaten ~10 additional fungi that I would not have eaten before, and they were all quite delicious.
also, thanks to that book, I did spore tests on mushrooms that I was "pretty sure" were correct, and found out that I was wrong.
do your research, and you may find some delicious new meals. don't, and you may find death.
- "All that the Rain Promises and More" by David Arora is a good place to start. But I'd recommend that you go out with your local mycological society to make sure you're identifying them correctly before you try eating any. Me personally, I stick to 2 types of mushrooms: chantrelles and boletes. They're hard to misidentify in my area.
- For a more positive outlook on why people get enthusiastic about mushrooms, I recommend the amazing book "All That The Rain Promises And More...", which has probably the best cover of a non-fiction book I've ever seen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_That_the_Rain_Promises_and....
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