A practical guide to identifying, picking, and cooking mushrooms helps enables readers to discover delicious food—for free—all around them  

Wild mushrooms grow in abundance, and discovering how to differentiate between a trompette des pastime (trumpets of death) and a chicken of the woods is an exciting and money-saving pastime. This handy pocket sized fungi book will teach readers how to identify fungi, where they can be found, what time of year will be most fruitful for foraging, and how best to store mushrooms at home. With several delicious recipes for freshly-picked and dried mushrooms, such as a creamy risotto or porcini pizza, this is the perfect read for any budding mycophile!