This
quirky pocket guide to western mushrooms is a must for
foragers and wild edibles lovers, or anyone who loves fungi, or for that
matter anyone who just loves fun. It is a solid, detailed guide for
identifying fungi - no small concern if you hope to consume what you
forage. It is also overflowing with pictures of wildly improbable
mushrooms and first-person stories of mushroom hunts as told by amateurs
and experts alike.
You
get the idea right from the cover - a tuxedoed trumpet player emerging
from a successful mushroom hunt. (He happened to spot his quarry near the
church where he will play for a wedding. Mushroom hunters are, as the
author points out, nothing if not opportunists.)
The
book is focused on mushrooms of the western states but foragers all over
the country will find it both useful and entertaining.
