"From the author of North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Wild Mushrooms, WILD EDIBLE MUSHROOMS aids mushroom hunters to armchair naturalists with finding, harvesting, preparing, and enjoying North American wild mushrooms. Detailed descriptions and color photos of 40 edible mushrooms (including scientific and common names, habitat, odor and taste, fruiting time, and more) are accompanied by recipes that feature each mushroom. This book will also include introductory material detailing the scope of the book, illustrations to help identify different types of mushroom, reasons to make mushrooms part of your diet (nutrients, medicinal, taste, cost), cautions (allergies and toxins), and tips on caring for and preparing mushrooms (drying, freezing, preserving, canning, pickling)"--