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past few years has seen a glut of mushroom books, some being better
than others. Here's a selection our favourite texts covering identification,
cooking and growing mushrooms, alongside some excellent wild food
titles. Scroll to the bottom of the page for videos and a CD-rom and
add new dimensions to your myco-education. |
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| Mushrooms
& Toadstools |
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Brian
Spooner, 255 pages, 170mm x 100mm, colour, softback.
A compact study guide and identifier by one of the most highly respected
British mycologists. Over 240 commonly found species are illustrated
with clear colour photographs, written descriptions of habitat, appearance,
structure and easy to use reference symbols. An ideal first book for
a newcomer to the field.
£8.99 Order
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| How
to Identify Edible Mushrooms |
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Patrick
Harding, Tony Lyon and Gill Tomblin, 192 pages, 210mm x
145mm, colour, softback.
With over 900 colour illustrations, this book details all of the important
edible species and compares them with undesirable look-alikes. Spore
prints, scale drawings and histograms are provided, together with
practical information on related subjects such as fruiting seasons,
poisoning, conservation, preserving and cooking fungi. £12.99
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| Mushrooms
and other Fungi of Great Britain and Europe |
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Roger
Phillips, 288 pages, 290mm x 210mm, colour,
softback.
Consistently superb photography, a huge range of species and illustrations
of specimens in various stages of development make this a favourite
reference text for many mushroom collectors.
£16.99
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| We
are the Champignons |
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Joe
& Jadwiga Lenart, 114 pages, 205mm x 145mm,
b&w with ten colour illustrations, softback.
This new guide to the gathering and preparation of Britain's ten finest
mushrooms offers a fresh alternative to the standard identification
book. A lively and practical text, packed with identification tips,
anecdotes, recipes and cartoons, it's a perfect primer for beginners
but also has plenty to interest the seasoned mushroomer. £6.95
(Sorry out of stock at present
- please enquire before ordering) |
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| Truffles:
the Black Diamond and other kinds |
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Jean-Marie
Rocchia, 174 pages, 250mm x 150mm, colour/b+w,
hardback.
This unique text must be essential reading for every gastronome. The
author, an expert truffle hunter and cultivator, guides the reader
through the wild and mysterious world of the European truffle industry,
peppering his text with entertaining anecdotes and rounding off his
encyclopaedic work with an awesome twenty-page recipe section.
£19.99
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| The
Chanterelle Book |
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Olle
Persson and Bo Mossberg, 120 pages, 245mm x
175mm, colour, softback.
This delightful appreciation of one of our most sought-after edible
mushrooms contains a wealth of historical fact, gorgeous illustrations
and sumptuous recipes, alongside practical advice on collecting, preserving,
preparing and cooking chanterelles and associated species.
£14.99
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| The
Mushroom Feast |
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Jane
Grigson, 305 pages, 215mm x 140mm, black &
white, softback.
Renowned cookery writer Jane Grigson’s classic no-nonsense compendium
of mushroom recipes (including a number of traditional meat-based
dishes) from around the world, with informative narrative, complimented
by a brief guide to using the best edible mushrooms and illustrated
with line drawings by Yvonne Skargon. £13.00
Order now! (Sorry
out of stock at present - please enquire before ordering) |
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| Patricia's
Mushroom Cookery - Vegetarian Dishes |
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Patricia
A Taylor, 116 pages, 240mm x 180mm, black and
white, laminated cover and spiral bound.
A mushroom cookery text that is devoted entirely to vegetarian dishes
and is based on the variety of species now available in UK shops.
Contains a selection of tried and tested recipes ranging from quick
and easy snacks to wholesome vegetarian meals and traditional recipes
with a mushroom twist, as well as techniques for preserving fresh
mushrooms, useful addresses, guidance on good practice in mushroom
collecting and recommended reading.
£11.99
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now! (Profits donated to RAFT, a
medical research charity)
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| The
Shi-itake Way |
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Jennifer
Snyder, 128 pages, 225mm x 150mm, b+w, softback.
One of the few english-language mushroom cookbooks that is fully vegetarian,
just available from the USA. Useful sections on the medicinal properties
of the shi-itake, its cultivation and preservation compliment a host
of excellent recipes, many of which would work perfectly with any
variety of mushroom.
£7.99
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| Totally
Mushroom Cookbook |
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Helen
Siegel and Karen Gillingham, 95 pages, 120mm x
140mm, b+w, softback.
Unusual mini-cookbook from the USA in a fun ‘mushroom’
format. Over 50 mushroom recipes with plenty of hints and advice notes
- an ideal small gift or stocking filler. £3.99
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| The
Dehydrator Cookbook |
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Joanna
White, 172 pages, b+w, softback.
Everything you need to know about dehydrating fruits, vegetables,
meats, poultry and fish, plus delicious recipes for using your bounty.
The book features only natural pretreatment methods, and covers times
and temperatures for dehydrating over 50 types of produce to retain
the highest possible nutritional value.
£7.99
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| Wild
Food - a unique guide to finding, cooking and eating wild mushrooms,
plants and seaweed |
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Roger
Phillips, 159 pages, 290mm x 215mm, colour,
softback.
An excellent all-rounder for foragers. Ordered chronologically throughout
the year, notes and recipes are provided for all the important edible
plants, accompanied by superb in-situ photography. Mushrooms are well
represented in this comprehensive work, which is superbly presented
to Phillips’ usual high standard. £14.99
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| The
Mushroom Hunt |
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Simon
Frazer and Penny Dale, 30 pages, 250mm x 230mm,
colour, softback.
Any junior nature enthusiast will love this realistic and beautifully
illustrated story, packed with clear information on many important
species and habitats. Part of the highly acclaimed ‘Read and
Wonder’ book series. Suitable for ages four years and upwards.
£4.99
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| Mushrooms
in the Garden |
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Hellmut
Steineck, 152 pages, 210 x 160mm, softback,
black & white/colour.
A highly practical book, translated from german and published in America,
it has been recommended as the ideal text for newcomers by some of
our most experienced mushroom cultivators.
It includes clear and accurate sections on the main humus and wood-inhabiting
fungi, the various environments that can be used for their cultivation
(both outside and indoors) and methods for growing, harvesting and
use, alongside a useful bibliography. £20.95
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| Mushrooms
for Colour |
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Miriam
C Rice & Dorothy Beebee 154 pages, 220mm x
140mm, softback, b&w/colour.
Common fungi can yield outstanding colours over the whole spectrum
and their dyestuff has been shown to be more colourfast than many
artificial compounds. 'Mushrooms for Colour' introduces the reader
to the techniques of selecting and preparing mushrooms for dying,
treatment of materials and testing, identifying and classifying dyes.
A detailed colour index and a biography of the important fungi and
their attributes completes this fascinating text. £15.95
Order now! |
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| Video |
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| The
Collectors' Guide to Wild Mushrooms |
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Mushroom
expert Peter Jordan is joined by TV presenter Kay Avila in this 90-minute
video, which features a series of forays throughout the season that
yield over 30 types of edible fungi from the St George’s mushroom
and morel in Spring to the boletes and blewits at the end of Autumn.
Each foray concludes with a selection of recipes and cooking/preserving
techniques appropriate to the species. An identification guide showing
more than 50 common British fungi in detail follows, allowing the
viewer to examine shape, scale, seasonal variation and bruising and
staining pattern when cut or rubbed. Commonly confused species are
compared and danger signs emphasised.
£18.00
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| CD-Roms |
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| First
Nature Multimedia Guide to the Kingdom of Fungi |
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Highly
acclaimed for its photography and a wealth of information on many
of the world's most beautiful fungi, this interactive CD runs on
PCs with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
- Over
1000 high-quality images of beautiful fungi
- Illustrated
identification guides
- Quizzes,
animations and videos
- Colour
and shape variations shown as fungi develop
- Fascinating
facts about each of the species
- Video
film showing the development of a fruiting body
- Guides
to fungus foray planning, mushroom menus, photography and conservation...
and a great deal more.
Hardware
requirements: Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME or NT; 4x CD-ROM drive; 64Mb
RAM and a screen set to display at least 256 colours and small fonts.
£20.00 Order
now!
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| Poisonous
Plants and Fungi in Britain and Ireland |
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This
newly expanded CD-ROM, produced by a joint initiative between the
Royal Botanic Gardens and the Toxicology Unit of Guy's Hospital, allows
to you safely and accurately identify fungi and poisonous plants on
your PC. It covers more than 120 groups of fungi including a number
of common non-toxic and edible species as well as 229 plants which
are either poisonous or are commonly thought to be.
It will be invaluable for people who enjoy foraging food from the
countryside, nurses or doctors treating suspected poisoning cases
and parents, teachers or local authority agencies wanting to provide
a safe environment for children to play and learn in. Identifications
are quickly and easily achieved by answering simple questions about
the plant or fungus that you wish to identify. If you are unsure how
to answer a question you can skip it, and at any time you can review
and change your answers. Your answers are used to reduce the number
of remaining suspects, and the next best question is offered. When
five or fewer suspects remain, photographic images can be called up
to visually complete and confirm your identification.
Key features: No previous botanical or mycological knowledge is necessary;
Clear interface and mouse control make the software easy to use; Simple
non-technical questions using many illustrations; Comprehensive list
of common names and synonyms; For each plant and fungus the CD provides
toxicity information (including clinical features), toxicology with
full bibliography, up to six photographic images including close-ups
of important features and a detailed description.
Hardware requirements: Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT 4.0; 4x CD-ROM drive;
16 Mb RAM and a screen set to display at least 256 colours and small
fonts. £39.95 Order
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