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Mushroom foraging & feasting, recollections and recipes from a lifetime on the hunt, Victoria Romanoff ; photography by Sarah Adams

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Includes bibliographical references (page 121) and index

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Mushroom foraging & feasting

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Victoria Romanoff ; photography by Sarah Adams

recollections and recipes from a lifetime on the hunt

Romanoff introduces readers to twelve of the most easily foraged and delicious mushrooms, including the chanterelle, the morel, and the oyster. She describes the appearance, habits, and lore of each variety, and provides a recipe for each; her recipes include both refined kitchen creations and rustic dishes meant to be prepared over an open fire at the end of a successful hunt. Romanoff also shares personal stories from her eight decades of mushrooming. From serendipitous discoveries while canoeing to habitual hikes with Piglet (in fact a terrier, not a truffle pig), her detailed accounts bring alive the sensory experience of the hunt, and the particular connection with nature that a forager enjoys

Introduction -- King bolete -- Bolete custard tart -- Chanterelle -- Chanterelle soup -- Caesar's mushroom -- Raw Caesar platter -- Black trumpet or horn of plenty -- Black trumpets with polenta -- Outings June -- Slippery jack and tamarack jack : slippery jack skewers -- Morel : morels in cream sauce over pasta -- Meadow mushroom : meadow mushrooms on potato pancakes -- Shaggy mane or shaggy ink cap : shaggy manes gratin -- Outings July -- Oyster mushroom -- Oyster mushrooms over cod or haddock -- Chicken mushroom or sulfur shelf -- Sulfur shelf pizza -- Giant puffball & warted puffball -- Baked puffball -- Perlatum over squash -- Parasol mushroom & shaggy parasol mushroom -- Stuffed parasol caps -- Outings August & September -- Wild mushroom pâté

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Mushroom foraging and feasting