{"product_id":"the-beginners-guide-to-mushrooms-everything-you-need-to-know-from-foraging-to-cultivating-9781631599118","title":"The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms: Everything You Need to Know, from Foraging to Cultivating","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Never before have mushrooms generated so much interest, for their \u003cb\u003ehealth benefits\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003emedicinal properties\u003c\/b\u003e, as well as a new understanding of their \u003cb\u003ecrucial role in a healthy environment\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms\u003c\/i\u003e by veteran mycologists Britt A. Bunyard and Tavis Lynch is \u003cb\u003ea complete reference and guidebook to get you started identifying, cultivating, cooking, and preserving mushrooms\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms \u003c\/i\u003eopens with important \u003cb\u003ebasics about wild mushrooming\u003c\/b\u003e and how to use the book. Information about \u003cb\u003ewhat fungi are\u003c\/b\u003e and their role in the environment and around the home is provided in brief and very understandable terms. Basic \u003cb\u003ewild mushroom anatomy\u003c\/b\u003e is discussed along with \u003cb\u003ehow to identify mushrooms\u003c\/b\u003e 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAll the major groups of wild mushrooms\u003c\/b\u003e, pointing out habitat, region, and notable characteristics--large photographs with easy-to-view characteristics facilitate correct identification. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMushroom cultivation\u003c\/b\u003e--with easy-to-follow illustrated instructions, learn how to grow mushrooms at home, including how to collect wild specimens and domesticate them. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCulinary uses\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003ehow to preserve\u003c\/b\u003e wild mushrooms to be enjoyed in the kitchen all year round. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Begin your wonderful exploration of wild mushrooms with this accessible yet thorough beginner's guide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBritt Bunyard, PhD, \u003c\/b\u003e is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal \u003ci\u003eFungi\u003c\/i\u003e. Britt has worked academically as a mycologist his entire career, writing scientifically for many research journals, popular science magazines, and books, most recently \u003ci\u003eMushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e, PBS's \u003ci\u003eNOVA\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWisconsin Foodie\u003c\/i\u003e television programs, and in\u003ci\u003e The Atlantic, Vogue, Forbes, Saveur, Women's World\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. He serves as Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival. He is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms\u003c\/i\u003e (Quarry Books), author of \u003ci\u003eAmanitas of North America\u003c\/i\u003e book (The FUNGI Press), and. co-editor of \u003ci\u003eMycoEpithalamia: Mushroom Wedding Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (The FUNGI Press). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTavis Lynch\u003c\/b\u003e 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 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. 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