How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Identifying 29 Wild, Edible Mushrooms

With the surging interest in foraging for mushrooms, those new to the art need a reliable guide to distinguishing the safe fungi from the toxic. But for beginner foragers who just want to answer the question “Can I eat it?”, most of the books on the subject are dry, dense, and written by mycologists for other mycologists.
 
Frank Hyman to the rescue! 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 edible mushrooms they’re likely to come across. In it, Hyman offers his expert mushroom foraging advice, distilling down the most important information for the reader in colorful, 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,” Hyman says. With Frank 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.

Frank Hyman is a professional mushroom hunter, certified to sell wild mushrooms to the public. He teaches workshops across the country on mushroom foraging and identification and has written about mushroom foraging for publications such as Paleo magazine, Hobby Farms, and Modern Farmer. He is a member of the North American Mycological Association, lives in Durham, North Carolina, and forages everywhere he travels.

What’s Wrong with this Book?!

CHAPTER 1: What the Heck are Mushrooms, Anyway?
CHAPTER 2: Safe & Responsible Foraging
CHAPTER 3: Money Doesn't Grow on Trees, But Gourmet Mushrooms Do

• Mushrooms without Gills that Grow on Trees
• Mushrooms with Gills that Grow on Trees

CHAPTER 4: The Fungal Fleet at Your Feet

• Mushrooms without Gills that Grow on the Ground
• Mushrooms with Gills that Grow on the Ground
• Steer Clear of these Sickeners

CHAPTER 5: Getting All Tooled Up
CHAPTER 6: Cooking & Preserving Mushrooms
CHAPTER 7: Growing as a Mushroom Hunter

Resources
Acknowledgments
Metric Conversions
Index