Wild Edible Mushrooms: Tips and Recipes for Every Mushroom Hunter by Hope H. Miller

Wild Edible Mushrooms aids mushroom hunters and armchair naturalists alike with finding, harvesting, preparing, and enjoying North American wild mushrooms. Detailed descriptions and color photos of forty edible mushrooms—including scientific and common names, habitat, odor, taste, fruiting time, and more—are accompanied by more than 100 mushroom recipes.

Hope Miller’s introduction includes reasons to make mushrooms part of one’s diet (nutrients, medicinal, taste, cost), cautions (allergies and toxins), tips on caring for and preparing mushrooms (drying, freezing, preserving, canning, pickling), and illustrations to help identify different parts of each mushroom.