<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms </i>is your ultimate guide to mycology. Whether you've never picked a mushroom before in your life or you've been cultivating mushrooms at home for ages, the expert advice in this comprehensive mushroom manual will transform your practice.</b> <p/> Never before have mushrooms generated so much interest, for their <b>health benefits</b> and <b>medicinal properties</b>, as well as a new understanding of their <b>crucial role in a healthy environment</b> and ability to regenerate damaged ones. If you are a newcomer, mycology, or the study of mushrooms and other fungi, can seem daunting. While other field guides are geared toward experts with advanced knowledge or regional in scope and aimed at only a few easy-to-recognize mushrooms, <i>The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms</i> by veteran mycologists Britt A. Bunyard and Tavis Lynch is <b>a complete reference and guidebook to get you started identifying, cultivating, cooking, and preserving mushrooms</b>. <p/><i>The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms </i>opens with important <b>basics about wild mushrooming</b> and how to use the book. Information about <b>what fungi are</b> and their role in the environment and around the home is provided in brief and very understandable terms. Basic <b>wild mushroom anatomy</b> is discussed along with <b>how to identify mushrooms</b> and various characteristics to look for--of great importance if you are interested in learning how to recognize edible wild species...as well as dangerous look-alikes. The guide then covers: <ul><li><b>All the major groups of wild mushrooms</b>, pointing out habitat, region, and notable characteristics--large photographs with easy-to-view characteristics facilitate correct identification. </li><li><b>Mushroom cultivation</b>--with easy-to-follow illustrated instructions, learn how to grow mushrooms at home, including how to collect wild specimens and domesticate them.</li><li><b>Culinary uses</b> and <b>how to preserve</b> wild mushrooms to be enjoyed in the kitchen all year round.</li></ul> Begin your wonderful exploration of wild mushrooms with this accessible yet thorough beginner's guide.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"...an interesting introduction to the mushroom world."--<i><b>Washington Gardener</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Britt Bunyard, PhD, </b> is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal <i>Fungi</i>. Britt has worked academically as a mycologist his entire career, writing scientifically for many research journals, popular science magazines, and books, most recently <i>Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States</i> (2012) by The Ohio State University Press. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological research journals, and mushroom guide books. A popular evangelizer on all things fungal, Britt has been featured on NPR's <i>All Things Considered</i>, PBS's <i>NOVA</i> and <i>Wisconsin Foodie</i> television programs, and in<i> The Atlantic, Vogue, Forbes, Saveur, Women's World</i>, and others. He serves as Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival. He is the co-author of <i>The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms</i> (Quarry Books), author of <i>Amanitas of North America</i> book (The FUNGI Press), and. co-editor of <i>MycoEpithalamia: Mushroom Wedding Poems</i> (The FUNGI Press). </p><p><b>Tavis Lynch</b> has been studying mushrooms for over three decades and teaches several mycology classes throughout the Upper Midwest. He is a regular guest on Wisconsin Public Radio and has been featured on "Around the Farm The Farm Table" on PBS. He owns and operates a large-scale mushroom farm in the north woods, growing mushrooms with a unique method that he developed. He is the author of <i>Mushroom Cultivation</i> and the co-author of<i> The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms</i>.</p>
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