Mushroom Foraging and Feasting: Recollections and Recipes from a Lifetime on the Hunt

A beguiling invitation to the world of mushroom hunting—combining practical advice and recipes with tales and photographs from a lifetime on the hunt

Victoria Romanoff picked her first mushroom—a brown-capped butterpilz or sticky bun—at the age of four, at her family’s summer dacha on the shores of the Baltic Sea. Little did she realize that her newfound interest in mushrooming would soon become an essential survival skill, as she and her mother spent eight years in displaced persons camps i...