Publisher's Synopsis
How to select, pick, and prepare a variety of edible wild mushrooms, with recipes.
Professional forager Shawn Dawson takes readers to his favorite mushroom picking spots for insightful and useful lessons on dozens of forest floor delicacies. Readers will learn where to look for mushrooms, as well as how to identify which ones are edible, harvest them sustainably, and prepare their harvest.
Mushroom foraging requires attention to detail and solid knowledge -- while over two dozen edible mushroom varieties are found in Newfoundland, many hundreds of toxic ones exist. Knowing which is which and exercising an abundance of caution is a must.
That's why Shawn's step-by-step guide is so useful. Readers will start by getting to know the parts of the mushroom and key identifiers. Then he'll introduce "the core four" -- golden chanterelles, winter chanterelles, hedgehogs, and sweet tooth mushrooms -- easily identified, abundant and delicious mushrooms for the burgeoning fungi hunter to look for.
Edible Mushrooms of Newfoundland includes tips for dehydrating, pickling, and other methods of preserving mushrooms to enjoy all year long. It also includes mushroom-forward recipes from some of the province's top chefs.
