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		<title>Old Book &#8211; The Mushroom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been looking at some old mushrooming books that are now, due to their age, in the public domain. These books are freely available for download from The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) but you may also download them from here. The Musroom; Edible or Otherwise by Miron Elisha Hard MA was first published in 1908 (more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/the-mushroom-edible-or-otherwise-page-335.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-307" style="margin-left: 10px;" title="the-mushroom-edible-or-otherwise-page-335" src="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/the-mushroom-edible-or-otherwise-page-335-206x300.jpg" alt="the mushroom edible or otherwise page 335 206x300 Old Book   The Mushroom" width="206" height="300" /></a>I&#8217;ve recently been looking at some old mushrooming books that are now, due to their age, in the public domain.</p>
<p>These books are freely available for download from The Internet Archive (<a href="http://www.archive.org">http://www.archive.org</a>) but you may also download them from here.</p>
<p><strong>The Musroom; Edible or Otherwise</strong> by Miron Elisha Hard MA was first published in 1908 (more details at <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/studiesamerican00roregoog" target="_blank">This book&#8217;s page at The Internet Archive</a>.)</p>
<p>The full title of the book is&#8230; <strong>The mushroom, edible and otherwise, its habitat and its time of growth, with photographic illustrations of nearly all the common species : a guide to the study of mushrooms, with special reference to the edible and poisonous varieties, with a view of opening up to the student of nature a wide field of useful and interesting knowledge.</strong> Now, imagine trying to order that over the telephone!<br />
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<p>The book is 630 pages long (almost as long as its full title!) and includes hundreds of black and white photographs.</p>
<p>The book starts with this lovely tale&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>WHY STUDY MUSHROOMS. </em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em> Some years ago, while in charge of the schools of Salem, Ohio, we had worked up quite a general interest in the study of botany.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em> It was my practice to go out every day after flowers, especially the rarer ones, of which there were many in this county, and bring in specimens for the classes.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>There was in the city a wire nail mill, running day and night, whose proprietors brought over, from time to time, large numbers of Bohemians as workers   in the mill.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Very frequently, when driving to the country early in the morning, I found the boys and girls of these Bohemian families searching the woods, fields and pastures at some distance from town, although they had not been in this country more than a week or two and could not speak a word of English.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>I soon found that they were gathering mushrooms of various kinds  and taking them home for food material. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>They could not tell me how they knew them, but I quickly learned that they knew them from their general characteristics, in fact, they knew them as we know people and flowers.</em></p>
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<p>The recipe section towards the end of the book contains some very relevant and sensible advice about cooking mushrooms.  Such as&#8230;The Mushroom Book may be downloaded by right clicking <a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/books/studies-of-american-fungi.pdf">here</a> and choosing to  save as (it might read Save Link As on some browsers.)<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been looking at some old mushrooming books that are now, due to their age, in the public domain. These books are freely available for download from The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) but you may also download them from here. Today I have selected was the Studies of American Fungi by George Francis Atkinson and first published [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/studies-of-american-fungi-page-422.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-299" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="studies-of-american-fungi-page-422" src="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/studies-of-american-fungi-page-422-175x300.jpg" alt="studies of american fungi page 422 175x300 Old Book   Studies of American Fungi" width="175" height="300" /></a>I&#8217;ve recently been looking at some old mushrooming books that are now, due to their age, in the public domain.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These books are freely available for download from The Internet Archive (<a href="http://www.archive.org">http://www.archive.org</a>) but you may also download them from here.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today I have selected was the <strong>Studies of American Fungi</strong> by George Francis Atkinson and first published in 1901 (more details at <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/studiesamerican00roregoog" target="_blank">This book&#8217;s page at The Internet Archive</a>.)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This 448 page guide contains 250 back and white photographs as well as a number of line illustrations.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The recipe section towards the end of the book contains some very relevant and sensible advice about cooking mushrooms.  Such as&#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The wild or uncultivated Agaricus campestris, which is usually picked in open fields, will cook in less time than those grown in caves and sold in our markets during the winter and spring. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Cut the stems close to the gills; these may be put aside and used for flavoring sauces or soups.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Wash the mushrooms carefully, keeping the gills down; throw them into a colander until drained.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/studies-of-american-fungi-page-424.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-302" style="margin-left: 10px;" title="studies-of-american-fungi-page-424" src="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/studies-of-american-fungi-page-424-175x300.jpg" alt="studies of american fungi page 424 175x300 Old Book   Studies of American Fungi" width="175" height="300" /></a>The section on <strong>Selection and Preparation of Mushrooms for the Table</strong> is a worthy entry in any mushrooming guide and contains the following timeless advice&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>In the selection of mushrooms to eat, great caution should be employed by those who are not reasonably familiar with the means of determination of the species, or those who have not an intimate acquaintance with certain forms.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em> Rarely should the beginner be encouraged to eat them upon his own determination. It is best at first to consult some one who knows, or to send first specimens away for determination, though in many cases a careful comparison of the plant with the figures and descriptions given in this book will enable a novice to recognize it.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>In taking up a species for the first time it would be well to experiment cautiously.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been looking at some old mushrooming books that are now, due to their age, in the public domain. These books are freely available for download from The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) but you may also download them from here. Today I have selected was the The Mushroom Book by Nina L. Marshall and first published in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/the-mushroom-book-page-183.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-293" style="margin-left: 10px;" title="the-mushroom-book-page-183" src="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/the-mushroom-book-page-183-195x300.jpg" alt="the mushroom book page 183 195x300 Old Book   The Mushroom Book" width="195" height="300" /></a>I&#8217;ve recently been looking at some old mushrooming books that are now, due to their age, in the public domain.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These books are freely available for download from The Internet Archive (<a href="http://www.archive.org">http://www.archive.org</a>) but you may also download them from here.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today I have selected was the The Mushroom Book by Nina L. Marshall and first published in 1901 (more details at <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/mushroombookpopu00marsrich" target="_blank">This book&#8217;s page at The Internet Archive</a>.)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This book (to use its full title&#8230;The mushroom book. A popular guide to the identification and study of our commoner fungi, with special emphasis on the edible varieties) is a 276 page book with plenty of illustrative line drawings and mainly black &amp; white photographs.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/the-mushroom-book-page-48.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-296" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="the-mushroom-book-page-48" src="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/the-mushroom-book-page-48-195x300.jpg" alt="the mushroom book page 48 195x300 Old Book   The Mushroom Book" width="195" height="300" /></a>The few coloured photographs in this edition (the downloadable pdf is, in fact, the 1923 edition) seem to be hand coloured.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I feel that the author may have been more interested in mushrooms from a scientific perspective than from a gastronomic one, as this short and sparse entry for Bloetus Edulis suggests&#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Edible Boletus</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Boletus edulis</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Cap - Convex or   nearly plane; smooth, moist; compact, then soft. Greyish red, brownish red, or tawny brown. 4-6 inches broad.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Flesh - White or yellowish; reddish beneath the skin.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Tubes &#8211; Convex, nearly free, long, minute, round. White, then yellow and greenish.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Stem  - Short or long, straight or curving, sometimes bulbous, stout, covered with network. Just beneath the sterp whitish or brownish. 2-6 inches long.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Habitat Thin woods. </em></p>
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<p>Now, nothing wrong with that accurate description but&#8230; it didn&#8217;t get me licking my lips.</p>
<p>It must be said though, that the author does start this book with the following words, so I may have misjudged her?</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>FOR centuries epicures have used certain fungi for food. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The Greeks and Romans esteemed them highly, and gave a great deal of consideration to favourable times and places for gathering them, and to choice methods of preparing them for the table.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Juvenal tells us of one old Roman enthusiast who was so carriedaway by his love for them as to exclaim, &#8220;Keep your corn, O Libya, unyoke your oxen, provided only you send us mushrooms!&#8221; </em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Horace says that mushrooms which grow in the fields are the best, and that one can have but little faith in other kinds.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Mushroom eaters of the present day would perhaps not agree with him, for they find edible species in every imaginable place where fungi grow, and are constantly adding to their list new varieties which they esteem delicious.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">In conclusion, <strong>The Mushroom Book</strong> is an interesting read and is well worth the download.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This River Cottage Handbook, `Mushrooms&#8217; by John Wright, is a genuinely funny and hugely informative guide to mushroom and toadstools with some useful cooking tips and recipes too. (Some are even simple enough to try!)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Quite simply &#8211; this is the best book of its kind &#8211; superb descriptions and pictures &#8211; the only book required to correctly identify mushrooms in the UK.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Wild mushrooms can be difficult to identify, and many poisonous species look similar to edible ones. An identification guide must therefore leave nothing to doubt, and this book uses both photographs and drawings to present all the essential details</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This handy, practical guide offers a quick way for beginners to identify mushrooms and toadstools Collins Gem Mushrooms describes almost 240 species of mushrooms and toadstools to be commonly found in Britain. Portable and clear, it is the ideal guide for those out foraging for fungi!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This handy pocket-sized guide provides quick, accurate and easy identification of over 200 European fungi species. Identifying colours and symbols, it classifies the species according to shape. It contains 320 colour photos that show each species with its characteristic features in its natural habitat. It also features 320 graphics that highlight the typical identifying features of each species, and a calendar wheel, which helps identify the time of year when each species can be found.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">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.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This is the most comprehensive photographic handbook for the dedicated mycologist, general naturalist or mushroom hunter collecting for the cooking pot. It features 1,000 species of higher fungi found in the British Isles and northern Europe, from the most common to the rarest &#8211; including some never hitherto published photographically.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8216;When all&#8217;s said and written, there&#8217;s nothing better than field mushrooms that you have gathered yourself, on toast, for breakfast.&#8217; Jane Grigson, The Mushroom Feast The Mushroom Feast is an indispensable classic for all those who love mushrooms. It is a fine, timeless, literary cookbook. Truffles&#8230;ceps&#8230;morels, they all conjure visions of one of the most intriguing and subtle of all gastronomic treats. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Discover the delicacies that hide in your garden, local woodlands or fields with this fully-illustrated A-Z guide. Learn the identifying features and habits of the most popular edible mushrooms, and try the suggestions for storing and cooking your bounty. Also included is a section on inedible mushrooms, clearly illustrating the poisonous species that you are most likely to come across.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Gathering edible wild food is a wonderful way to forge a connection to the earth. Mushrooms are the ultimate local food source; they grow literally everywhere, from Central Park to your own backyard. The Complete Mushroom Hunter invites readers to connect with a hobby that will enrich their understanding of the natural world and build an appreciation for an ancient, but relevant, body of knowledge.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Mushroom collecting is becoming increasingly popular, and while a comprehensive identification guide is essential, the folklore, facts and fables, recipes and stories that have accumulated since ancient times create part of the charm of these strange organisms. Oddly, these facts have never been compiled in one book.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The fields, woods and gardens of Britain and Europe are home to a wide range of edible mushrooms, a number of which are not simply good but truly excellent to eat. This book is a practical, user-friendly guide to collecting edible wild fungi species across Britain and Europe. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This indispensable guide to the Mushrooms of Britain and Europe is part of the new Black&#8217;s Nature Guide series. Over 450 species of mushroom are covered, each beautifully illustrated with detailed paintings and clear photographs. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Explores the world of edible mushrooms from the field to kitchen. Focuses on the best edible fungi, providing failsafe identification notes for over 50 choice varieties, and offers over 50 delicious everyday recipes using specific mushrooms and mixed mushrooms. Ideal for the forager and the foodie.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Clear, highly accessible guide &#8211; it cuts out all the mushrooms with gills and reduces the field to a group of readily identifiable, edible mushrooms. It includes clear guidelines, encouraging the reader to read the book twice before going out so that they are confident about the principles it explains.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been looking at some old mushrooming books that are now, due to their age, in the public domain. These books are freely available for download from The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) but you may also download them from here. Today I have selected was the Some Common Mushrooms and How to Know Them by Vera [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/some-common-mushrooms-and-how-to-know-them-page-11.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-281" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="some-common-mushrooms-and-how-to-know-them-page-11" src="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/some-common-mushrooms-and-how-to-know-them-page-11-188x300.jpg" alt="some common mushrooms and how to know them page 11 188x300 Old Book   Some Common Mushrooms" width="188" height="300" /></a>I&#8217;ve recently been looking at some old mushrooming books that are now, due to their age, in the public domain.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These books are freely available for download from The Internet Archive (<a href="http://www.archive.org">http://www.archive.org</a>) but you may also download them from here.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today I have selected was the <strong>Some Common Mushrooms and How to Know Them</strong> by Vera Katherine Charles and published in 1931 (more details at <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/studentshandbook02tayl" target="_blank">The Internet Archive</a>.)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This book contains plenty of black and white photographs and, although I believe that some of the coloured drawings in the older books are better for field identification guides, I can also understand the desire, in 1931, to move forward to new technologies.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The writing is very clear and concise as the entry on Lepiota shows&#8230;.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The genus Lepiota may be distinguished from Amanita and Amanitopsis by the presence of a ring and the absence of a volva.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The cap is generally scaly or granular and the stem is fleshy and  easily separable from the cap, in which it leaves a cuplike depression.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The gills are usually free and are white when young, but certain species are pink or green when mature.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The ring may be fixed or free, and when the plant is young it is readily seen, but before maturity it may have disappeared. This genus contains some of the finest edible species as well as some extremely dangerous ones.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Now, I personally believe that the clarity of the selected text would put many of the writers of today&#8217;s mushrooming guides to shame.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">And I particularly liked the subtle warning of the last sentence.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The slightly disappointing photography apart, this is a real gem of a book and I&#8217;m really rather glad that I came across it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I wonder what sort of person Vera Katherine Charles was?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And I wonder what prompted her to invest the time in a project that is still a valuable reference today, some eighty years after it was first published?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Some Common Mushrooms and How to Know Them</strong> may be downloaded by right clicking <a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/books/some-common-mushrooms-and-how-to-know-them.pdf">here </a>and choosing to  save as (it might read Save Link As on some browsers.)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This River Cottage Handbook, `Mushrooms&#8217; by John Wright, is a genuinely funny and hugely informative guide to mushroom and toadstools with some useful cooking tips and recipes too. (Some are even simple enough to try!)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747589321/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More Information</a></small></td>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Quite simply &#8211; this is the best book of its kind &#8211; superb descriptions and pictures &#8211; the only book required to correctly identify mushrooms in the UK.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Wild mushrooms can be difficult to identify, and many poisonous species look similar to edible ones. An identification guide must therefore leave nothing to doubt, and this book uses both photographs and drawings to present all the essential details</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This handy, practical guide offers a quick way for beginners to identify mushrooms and toadstools Collins Gem Mushrooms describes almost 240 species of mushrooms and toadstools to be commonly found in Britain. Portable and clear, it is the ideal guide for those out foraging for fungi!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This handy pocket-sized guide provides quick, accurate and easy identification of over 200 European fungi species. Identifying colours and symbols, it classifies the species according to shape. It contains 320 colour photos that show each species with its characteristic features in its natural habitat. It also features 320 graphics that highlight the typical identifying features of each species, and a calendar wheel, which helps identify the time of year when each species can be found.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Collins Complete Guide to British Muchrooms and Toadstools allows everyone to identify mushrooms found in Britain and Ireland. The book is illustrated with beautiful photographs throughout, featuring the species you are most likely to see. By only covering Britain and Ireland, fewer species are included than in many broader European guides, making it quicker and easier for the reader to accurately identify what they have found.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">There are not many people who have been collecting, cooking and devising recipes for mushrooms for over 60 years, but Antonio Carluccio is one. Known as the &#8216;mushroom man&#8217;, Carluccio&#8217;s Neal Street Restaurant in London&#8217;s Covent Garden is a mecca for mushroom and truffle lovers from all over the world. Carluccio&#8217;s expertise is unrivalled and this book, with over 100 recipes that make the most of readily available mushrooms in dishes ranging from classic to contemporary via oriental and Eastern European, will not disappoint.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Fully illustrated throughout, this practical guide to identifying edible mushrooms gives you all the details you need to enjoy the adventure of locating and collecting wild mushrooms. The book features all edible species of mushroom, together with those with which they may be confused. Organised by habitat for easy reference, it is beautifully illustrated and includes the best ways to cook and eat the mushrooms you collect.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">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.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This is the most comprehensive photographic handbook for the dedicated mycologist, general naturalist or mushroom hunter collecting for the cooking pot. It features 1,000 species of higher fungi found in the British Isles and northern Europe, from the most common to the rarest &#8211; including some never hitherto published photographically.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8216;When all&#8217;s said and written, there&#8217;s nothing better than field mushrooms that you have gathered yourself, on toast, for breakfast.&#8217; Jane Grigson, The Mushroom Feast The Mushroom Feast is an indispensable classic for all those who love mushrooms. It is a fine, timeless, literary cookbook. Truffles&#8230;ceps&#8230;morels, they all conjure visions of one of the most intriguing and subtle of all gastronomic treats. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Discover the delicacies that hide in your garden, local woodlands or fields with this fully-illustrated A-Z guide. Learn the identifying features and habits of the most popular edible mushrooms, and try the suggestions for storing and cooking your bounty. Also included is a section on inedible mushrooms, clearly illustrating the poisonous species that you are most likely to come across.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Gathering edible wild food is a wonderful way to forge a connection to the earth. Mushrooms are the ultimate local food source; they grow literally everywhere, from Central Park to your own backyard. The Complete Mushroom Hunter invites readers to connect with a hobby that will enrich their understanding of the natural world and build an appreciation for an ancient, but relevant, body of knowledge.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Mushroom collecting is becoming increasingly popular, and while a comprehensive identification guide is essential, the folklore, facts and fables, recipes and stories that have accumulated since ancient times create part of the charm of these strange organisms. Oddly, these facts have never been compiled in one book.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The fields, woods and gardens of Britain and Europe are home to a wide range of edible mushrooms, a number of which are not simply good but truly excellent to eat. This book is a practical, user-friendly guide to collecting edible wild fungi species across Britain and Europe. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This indispensable guide to the Mushrooms of Britain and Europe is part of the new Black&#8217;s Nature Guide series. Over 450 species of mushroom are covered, each beautifully illustrated with detailed paintings and clear photographs. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Explores the world of edible mushrooms from the field to kitchen. Focuses on the best edible fungi, providing failsafe identification notes for over 50 choice varieties, and offers over 50 delicious everyday recipes using specific mushrooms and mixed mushrooms. Ideal for the forager and the foodie.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This guide offers information on observing and identifying 150 of the most commonly encountered fungi species in Britain and Europe, all of which can be recognized without the use of a microscope. A concise description details the main features of each species, which is illustrated by a colour painting. The guide explains how fungi grow, what to look for in each family division and how to make a safe identification. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Clear, highly accessible guide &#8211; it cuts out all the mushrooms with gills and reduces the field to a group of readily identifiable, edible mushrooms. It includes clear guidelines, encouraging the reader to read the book twice before going out so that they are confident about the principles it explains.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Ray Mears has travelled the world discovering how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. Whats always frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves and what we could learn about our own diet.  We know they were hunter-gatherers, but no-one has been able to tell what they ate day to day.  How did they find their calories, week in week out throughout the year? In this book he travels back ten thousand years to a time before farming to learn how our ancestors found, prepared and cooked their food.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been looking at some old mushrooming books that are now, due to their age, in the public domain. These books are freely available for download from The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) but you may also download them from here. Today I have selected was the Students Handbook to Mushrooms of America &#8211; Edible and Poisonous [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/students-handbook-of-mushrooms-of-america-page-33.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-274" style="margin-left: 10px;" title="students-handbook-of-mushrooms-of-america-page-33" src="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/students-handbook-of-mushrooms-of-america-page-33-182x300.jpg" alt="students handbook of mushrooms of america page 33 182x300 Old Book   Students Handbook....." width="182" height="300" /></a>I&#8217;ve recently been looking at some old mushrooming books that are now, due to their age, in the public domain.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These books are freely available for download from The Internet Archive (<a href="http://www.archive.org">http://www.archive.org</a>) but you may also download them from here.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today I have selected was the Students Handbook to Mushrooms of America &#8211; Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor M.D.  and published in 1897 (more details at <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/studentshandbook02tayl" target="_blank">The Internet Archive</a>.)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This 46 page book contains 6 coloured plates and a simple guide to some of the more common mushrooms that one might come across.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The entry for the <em>Parasol Mushroom</em> (shown in the image to the left) starts like this&#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Edible.  Cap at first sub-globose, then curved, the surface smooth and satinywhen dry, creamy white gills close and slightly rounded at the inner extremity towards the stem, free from the stem, white; stem white, smooth, hollow, and bulbous at the base ring thick, distinct, movable.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Whilst I don&#8217;t think that I would like to have to rely on this slight volume as my only mushrooming guide, it does contain a wealth of information about the history of mushrooming and, as such, is an enjoyable read on a cold winters day when the snow keeps you from going out and searching for those Wood Bluwits.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This handy pocket-sized guide provides quick, accurate and easy identification of over 200 European fungi species. Identifying colours and symbols, it classifies the species according to shape. It contains 320 colour photos that show each species with its characteristic features in its natural habitat. It also features 320 graphics that highlight the typical identifying features of each species, and a calendar wheel, which helps identify the time of year when each species can be found.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Explores the world of edible mushrooms from the field to kitchen. Focuses on the best edible fungi, providing failsafe identification notes for over 50 choice varieties, and offers over 50 delicious everyday recipes using specific mushrooms and mixed mushrooms. Ideal for the forager and the foodie.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This guide offers information on observing and identifying 150 of the most commonly encountered fungi species in Britain and Europe, all of which can be recognized without the use of a microscope. A concise description details the main features of each species, which is illustrated by a colour painting. The guide explains how fungi grow, what to look for in each family division and how to make a safe identification. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Clear, highly accessible guide &#8211; it cuts out all the mushrooms with gills and reduces the field to a group of readily identifiable, edible mushrooms. It includes clear guidelines, encouraging the reader to read the book twice before going out so that they are confident about the principles it explains.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the wonderful things about mushrooming is that, compared to other hobbies and interests, little has changed over the last hundred years or so. Unlike sailing or mountaineering, there have been few technical innovations and the equipment we use is not so dissimilar to the equipment our grandparents might have used. And with mushrooming [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/among-the-mushrooms1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-267" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="among-the-mushrooms" src="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/among-the-mushrooms1-180x300.jpg" alt="among the mushrooms1 180x300 Old Mushrooming Books" width="180" height="300" /></a>One of the wonderful things about mushrooming is that, compared to other hobbies and interests, little has changed over the last hundred years or so.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Unlike sailing or mountaineering, there have been few technical innovations and the equipment we use is not so dissimilar to the equipment our grandparents might have used.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And with mushrooming books it is the same.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sure, nowadays we expect photographs of our prey but, sometimes (and often in my opinion), a well presented drawing is just as good.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I have been looking at some old mushrooming books that are now, due to their age, in the public domain.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These books are freely available for download from The Internet Archive (<a href="http://www.archive.org">http://www.archive.org</a>) but you may also download them from here.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/among-the-mushrooms-page-8.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-268" style="margin-left: 10px;" title="among-the-mushrooms-page-8" src="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/among-the-mushrooms-page-8-173x300.jpg" alt="among the mushrooms page 8 173x300 Old Mushrooming Books" width="173" height="300" /></a>The first I selected was the lovely <strong>Among the Mushrooms </strong>by Caroline A. Burgin and published in 1900 (more details at <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/amongmushroomsgu00dall">The Internet Archive</a>.)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The lovely tome contains some beautiful images (see the example on the left) and the text is still relevant today in our iPod, mobile phone enhanced times.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This 206 page volume perhaps has to work harder than modern books to convey the information that we require.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Is this a problem?  Well, no I rather think not.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/among-the-mushrooms-page-19.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-269" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="among-the-mushrooms-page-19" src="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/among-the-mushrooms-page-19-173x300.jpg" alt="among the mushrooms page 19 173x300 Old Mushrooming Books" width="173" height="300" /></a>The book starts, rather charmingly with these words&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>This book is intended for those who, though ignorant on the subject, desire to know something about mushooms.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The first question that such an one ask upon find a mushroom is, &#8220;What is its name?&#8221; </em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>If there is no one near to tell him, then follows the second inquiry, &#8220;How can I find it out for myself?&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Although I haven&#8217;t read the whole book, the pages that I have looked at seem to offer a clear and concise introduction to mushrooming that even 110 years haven&#8217;t managed to blunt.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Although I would probably not use this book as my sole mushrooming guide, it is interesting reading and, being in pdf format, could be copied onto an ebook reader or even&#8230; a mobile phone!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">An example of the quality of the writing is offered here with the entry for&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>LACTARIUS PIPERATUS = peppery.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The Peppery Lactarius.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Cap white, 4 to 9 inches broad, fleshy, rigid, depressed in centre when young, reflexed margin, at first involute, when full grown the surface becomes funnel-shaped and regular, even, smooth, without zones; flesh white.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Stem 1 to 2 inches long, 1 to 2 inches thick, solid, obese, equal or obconical, slightly covered with powder (pruinose), white.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Gills decurrent, crowded, narrow, scarcely broader than one line, obtuse at edge, regularly dividing by pairs from below upward (dichotomous), curved like a bow (arcuate), then all extended upward in a straight line, white, with occasional yellow spots.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The milk white, unchangeable, plentiful, and acrid. This is common in woods. The cap in one of our specimens turned yellow when old, and was slightly striate at the margin; it was dry and thick and had no odor. The flesh had a whitish-brownish tinge where the cuticle was peeled off.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Found it only in August.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I can quite imagine Caroline Burgin kneeling down in a wooded glade, 110 years ago,  and entering  those details into her notebook &#8211; just as many of us do these days!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Among the Mushrooms may be downloaded by right clicking <a href="http://www.mushroomdiary.com/books/among-the-mushrooms.pdf">here</a> and choosing to  save as (it might read <em>Save Link As</em> on some browsers.)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8216;When all&#8217;s said and written, there&#8217;s nothing better than field mushrooms that you have gathered yourself, on toast, for breakfast.&#8217; Jane Grigson, The Mushroom Feast The Mushroom Feast is an indispensable classic for all those who love mushrooms. It is a fine, timeless, literary cookbook. Truffles&#8230;ceps&#8230;morels, they all conjure visions of one of the most intriguing and subtle of all gastronomic treats. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Discover the delicacies that hide in your garden, local woodlands or fields with this fully-illustrated A-Z guide. Learn the identifying features and habits of the most popular edible mushrooms, and try the suggestions for storing and cooking your bounty. Also included is a section on inedible mushrooms, clearly illustrating the poisonous species that you are most likely to come across.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Gathering edible wild food is a wonderful way to forge a connection to the earth. Mushrooms are the ultimate local food source; they grow literally everywhere, from Central Park to your own backyard. The Complete Mushroom Hunter invites readers to connect with a hobby that will enrich their understanding of the natural world and build an appreciation for an ancient, but relevant, body of knowledge.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Mushroom collecting is becoming increasingly popular, and while a comprehensive identification guide is essential, the folklore, facts and fables, recipes and stories that have accumulated since ancient times create part of the charm of these strange organisms. Oddly, these facts have never been compiled in one book.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The fields, woods and gardens of Britain and Europe are home to a wide range of edible mushrooms, a number of which are not simply good but truly excellent to eat. This book is a practical, user-friendly guide to collecting edible wild fungi species across Britain and Europe. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This indispensable guide to the Mushrooms of Britain and Europe is part of the new Black&#8217;s Nature Guide series. Over 450 species of mushroom are covered, each beautifully illustrated with detailed paintings and clear photographs. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Explores the world of edible mushrooms from the field to kitchen. Focuses on the best edible fungi, providing failsafe identification notes for over 50 choice varieties, and offers over 50 delicious everyday recipes using specific mushrooms and mixed mushrooms. Ideal for the forager and the foodie.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This guide offers information on observing and identifying 150 of the most commonly encountered fungi species in Britain and Europe, all of which can be recognized without the use of a microscope. A concise description details the main features of each species, which is illustrated by a colour painting. The guide explains how fungi grow, what to look for in each family division and how to make a safe identification. </p>
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<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1873674880/keitheckcom-21"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6155MSAB79L._SS500_.jpg"  alt="Mushroom Diary - mushrooming in south-west Brittany, France" title="Mushroom Diary - mushrooming in south-west Brittany, France" width="140" border="0" /></a><small><b>Mushrooming Without Fear</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Clear, highly accessible guide &#8211; it cuts out all the mushrooms with gills and reduces the field to a group of readily identifiable, edible mushrooms. It includes clear guidelines, encouraging the reader to read the book twice before going out so that they are confident about the principles it explains.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Ray Mears has travelled the world discovering how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. Whats always frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves and what we could learn about our own diet.  We know they were hunter-gatherers, but no-one has been able to tell what they ate day to day.  How did they find their calories, week in week out throughout the year? In this book he travels back ten thousand years to a time before farming to learn how our ancestors found, prepared and cooked their food.</p>
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