The Wild Mushroom Cookbook: Recipes from Mendocino

by Merry Winslow, Alison Gardner

Overview

The most comprehensive collection of wild mushroom recipes ever assembled in one book, from breakfast to dinner, appetizers to dessert. It also describes the best uses for each of 34 different mushrooms, mentions procedures useful in their preparation, and covers the best methods of preservation for different species. Full of ideas which may be applied to store-bought mushrooms as well, this book will stimulate your imagination and guide your creativity.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158067136
Publisher:	Barefoot Naturalist Press
Publication date:	12/17/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Alison Gardner was born in Santa Barbara, California, and moved north to the Mendocino coast with her family in 1969, at the age of 10. She learned her first mushrooms the next fall, from an “old-timer”, and has been an avid mushroom hunter and eater ever since. She has attended and teacher-aided for the local community college mushroom classes, as well as leading private mushroom tours.
She started cooking meals regularly for the family at age 13, learning from her mother, a cousin and a neighbor. She took a commercial cooking class in high school, and worked in two restaurants in her teens and early twenties. She has done some catering for weddings. She is also a botanist and potter, and still resides on the Mendocino coast.
Merry Winslow was born in New York, obtained a Master's degree in Education and went on to teach both in the US and abroad. She taught animal husbandry and organic gardening on her 20's while living and learning on a kibbutz. She returned to the States and helped start and run an alternative K-5 school in Point Arena, then bought a bookstore and worked as a journalist. She came to her mycophilia after finding herself living in an area of fungal abundance, and has studied and enjoyed the gifts of the Redwood Coast for 35 years.