Good Mushroom Bad Mushroom - by John Plischke (Paperback)

About the Book

This friendly, authoritative field guide to the challenges and delights of hunting and eating wild mushrooms considers 50 of the most interesting and noteworthy mushrooms out there, with full-color photos throughout and generous helpings of mushroom recipes.

Book Synopsis

Let's go out and hunt mushrooms! Foraging for wild mushrooms is one of the most enjoyable and delicious of family activities.

Good Mushroom Bad Mushroom is a friendly, authoritative field guide to hunting and eating wild mushrooms, including (importantly) how to identify the edible ones and avoid the toxic ones. Mushroom expert John Plischke considers 50 of the most interesting and noteworthy mushrooms out there, with full-color photos throughout and generous helpings of mushroom recipes. An attractive gift book for beginners and old-timers alike - adults as well as curious kids - Good Mushroom Bad Mushroom features heavy matte-laminated pages and concealed-wire binding for handy use outside.

From the Back Cover

Better Safe Than Sorry

Rule #1 for wild mushroom hunting: You can't afford to gamble when it comes to accurate identification - telling the edible ones from look-alikes that could make you sick or worse.

GOOD MUSHROOM, BAD MUSHROOM is the essential wild mushroom field guide, by one of the top mycologists in North America. John Plischke's informative, easy-to-read text and award-winning photographs take the guesswork out of identifying wild mushrooms. And when you get it right, there's no better eating than a fresh, wild Morel. For an added treat, John brings you from field to kitchen with some of his favorite mushroom recipes.

Review Quotes

"John is one of the top mushroom identifiers in the USA. Generously sharing his knowledge through lectures, workshops and meetings on mushrooms, he is a well known and sought after teacher." -Sandy Sheine, Education Chair, North American Mycological Association

"When it comes to identifying and eating wild mushrooms, you need an expert you can trust. John Plischke III is that expert: he knows the mushrooms, which ones are edible, and how to tell them from any poisonous look-alikes. I'd trust my life to his judgment." -Gary Lincoff, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms

About the Author

John Plischke III has been hunting mushrooms for over 40 years. He is well known throughout the United States and Canada, having given hundreds of mushroom programs to schools, parks, mushroom clubs and other groups. He is the recipient of more than 80 national and regional awards for his mushroom photography. In 2000, he founded the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club with just 14 members. The club is now one of the largest mushroom clubs in the United States. John has received the North American Mycological Association's (NAMA) Knighton Service Award. He is the author of Morel Mushrooms and Their Poisonous Look A Likes, has edited two cookbooks of the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club and has been a contributor to many other mushroom books. John is a trustee and faculty member for both NAMA and the North East Mycological Federation. He is one of the editors for Fungi Magazine and is chairman of the fungus section of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey