The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (749 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345536258 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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He liked it. Beverly H. Rutledge it was a gift for my son. He liked it.. Michael J. Edelman said A story of people, money and fungi. To most people, mushrooms are still those bland, greying semicircles found on top of a pizza or in a bowl of pasta. But to anyone who has tasted a sautéed wild morel or chanterelle or lobster mushroom, or had fresh truffle shaved over their eggs or fettuccini, mushrooms can be the most amazing, sublime, delicious flavors to be found . The French Connection meets Carlos Castanada Bunyyup I loved this book!My kids and I were mushroom hunters. We went out with the local Yahoo group, and it was a lot of fun. We also got to eat the mushrooms! Yeah! When I saw the Langdon Cook book, The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America, it was a must read just for family history alone.I got something different than I expe
Meet Doug, an ex-logger and crabber—now an itinerant mushroom picker trying to pay his bills and stay out of trouble; and Jeremy, a former cook turned wild food entrepreneur, crisscrossing the continent to build a business amid cutthroat competition; their friend Matt, an up-and-coming chef whose kitchen alchemy is turning heads; and the woman who inspires them all. economic and social structures—all while being entertained and enlightened by stories of gastronomy and mushrooms. Like the late Hunter Thompson, he not only goes along for the ride with the shifty characters he’s writing about, but drives the getaway car. Whether dressing up a filet mignon with smoky morels or shaving luxurious white truffles over pasta, the most elegant restaurants across the country now feature an abundance of wild mushrooms. Cook travels and hunts with them in a riveting, crazy undertaking, told in often-poetic prose.”—Shelf Awareness. The mushroom hunters, by contrast, are a rough lot. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal “Intrepid and inspired.”—Publishers Weekly “Uncultivated mushrooms are one of our last truly wild foods; it often takes truly wild and rough mushroom hunters to bring them to our
This book is a ton of fun--equal parts adventure, natural history, and gastronomy. Above all, The Mushroom Hunters will make you hungry. An Best Book of the Month, September 2013: In your neighborhood grocery store sits a bin of nondescript white mushrooms, unthreatening and clearly-of-this-planet fungi that might have been plucked from the pages of Beatrix Potter tale. Naturalists (who aren’t necessarily foodies) will learn about some of the more exotic fungi and their uses on the table, while foodies (who might not be naturalists) will find the loamy details of the mushroo