Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms (Revised) (Mushroom Guides) (2ND ed.)

Biographical Note:
Teresa Marrone has been gathering and preparing wild edibles for three decades--and writing about them for 25 years. She is the author of more than a dozen outdoors-themed books, including the Wild Berries & Fruits Field Guide series (currently available for four regions of the U.S.) and numerous cookbooks featuring wild foods. She lives in Minneapolis with husband Bruce and enjoys shooting photos of mushrooms, berries and all things wild in the area surrounding their property abutting Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. A born forager, Kathy Yerich has been intimately involved with mushroom foraging for over 10 years. A proud member of the Minnesota Mycological Society and the North American Mycological Association, she has traveled the country in search of fungi. She has recently started seeing a new side of mushrooms with the discovery of macro lenses. A video producer by day, she is more comfortable behind the camera but recently got a taste of the other side, foraging with "Bizarre Foods" host Andrew Zimmern in a web series called "Appetite for Life." She lives in Forest Lake, Minnesota, with her potter and mushroom-scout husband Fred and multiple four-legged friends. This collaboration with Teresa is her first book.

Description for Sales People:

• Popular, proven format: the first edition (9781591934172) has sold about 33,000 copies
• Market: Everyone from the casual mushroom-picker to the serious forager
• Not intimidating: geared toward the average forager with species organized by shape, then color, for beginning to identify common wild mushrooms
• More than 400 mushrooms with full-page photos and need-to-know details for easy identification
• Spotlight on edibles that can be safely and easily identified, as well as highly toxic mushrooms
• Authors with extensive foraging experience--write and lecture on the topic
• Extreme value: massive information for $16.95
• Information applicable to the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin
• Review of the first edition: "This is an excellent first choice for your mushroom library." (Illinois Mycological Association, October 2014)

Introduction

• About This Book
• What Is a Mushroom?
• How to Look at Mushrooms
• Eating Mushrooms
• Digging Deeper into Mycology
• How to Use This Book
• Basic Categories

Top Edibles

Top Toxics

Mushrooms Grouped by Type

• Cap & Stem with Gills
• Cap & Stem with Pores
• Atypical Caps
• Shelf with Pores
• Shelf with Gills
• Shelf/Other
• Spherical Mushrooms
• Cup-Shaped Mushrooms
• Coral and Club Fungi
• Miscellaneous Mushrooms

Helpful Resources and Bibliography

Glossary

Index

About the Authors

Begin to Identify Mushrooms with this Great Visual Guide for the Upper Midwest!

Mushrooming is a popular and rewarding pastime--and it's one that you can enjoy with the right information at hand. Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest is the field guide to get you started. The region-specific book utilizes an innovative, user-friendly format that can help you identify mushrooms by their visual characteristics. Hundreds of full-color photographs are paired with easy-to-understand text, providing the details to give you confidence in the field. The information, written by foraging experts Teresa Marrone and Kathy Yerich, is accessible to beginners but useful for even experienced mushroom seekers.

Learn about nearly 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The species (from Morel Mushrooms to Shelf Mushrooms) are organized by shape, then by color, so you can identify them by their visual characteristics. Plus, with the Top Edibles and Top Toxics sections, you'll begin to learn which are the edible wild mushrooms and which to avoid.

Get this field guide, jam-packed with information, and start identifying the mushrooms you find.