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Wild Mushrooming
A Guide for Foragers
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Find, identify, collect and prepare 10 edible fungus species using a 'slow mushrooming' approach.
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Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2022: Illustrated Non-Fiction
Longlisted for the ABIA Book Awards 2022: Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year
Fungi are diverse, delicious and sometimes deadly. With interest in foraging for wild food on the rise, learning to accurately identify fungi reduces both poisoning risk to humans and harm to the environment. This extensively illustrated guide takes a 'slow mushrooming' approach, providing the information to correctly identify a few edible species thoroughly, rather than many superficially.
Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers melds scientific and cultural knowledge with stunning photography to present a new way of looking at fungi. It models 'ecological foraging'—an approach based on care, conservation and a deep understanding of ecosystem dynamics.
Sections on where, when and how to find fungi guide the forager in the identification of 10 edible species. Diagnostic information on toxic fungi and lookalike species helps to differentiate the desirable from the deadly.
Wild Mushrooming then takes us into the kitchen with cooking techniques and 29 recipes from a variety of cuisines that can be adapted for both foraged and cultivated fungi.
Developing the skills to find fungi requires slowness, not speed. This guide provides the necessary information for the safe collection of fungi, and is essential reading for fungus enthusiasts, ecologists, conservationists, medical professionals and anyone interested in the natural world.
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Wild Mushrooming by Alison Pouliot and Tom May receives high praise for its invaluable guidance to mushroom foragers, with a blend of scientific insights and cultural knowledge enhanced by stunning photography. The book is recommended as an excellent starting point for beginners, as it effectively illustrates the variability in fungi and is considered useful worldwide, not just in Australia. It is particularly noted for its comprehensive coverage, making it a beautifully produced and practical resource for those interested in foraging for fungi.
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ISBN: 9781486311736
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 March 2021
Country: Australia
Imprint: CSIRO Publishing
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 170.0mm
Height: 245.0mm
Weight: 800g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Alison Pouliot is an ecologist and environmental photographer with a focus on fungi. She is active in Australian and international fungal conservation and her writing and images appear in both academic and popular literature. Alison’s fungus forays, which she conducts across both hemispheres, attract a range of people from foragers and philosophers to rangers and traditional owners. She is also the photographer and author of The Allure of Fungi (2018). Tom May is a mycologist who has spent more than four decades getting to know Australian fungi. He has published widely on fungal taxonomy, ecology and conservation in scientific and popular literature, including checklists of Australian fungi and a key to genera of Australian mushrooms (FunKey). He is active in international mycological groups such as the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi and in community natural history organisations, founding Fungimap in 1995. He was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion in 2014.
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