This beautiful guide to buying, storing, and cooking more than 20 varieties of wild and cultivated mushrooms (and truffles!) also includes 125 mouth-watering recipes. More than 100 color photographs capture the unique characteristics and the elegance of each type of mushroom, providing tempting visuals for the dishes featured in the book. An evocative object in itself, A Cook's Initiation into the Gorgeous World of Mushrooms will be equally at home on a gourmet's kitchen countertop and a nature lover's coffee table.

The winning bidder can make one of the recipes with the 2-pound basket of mushrooms from Gourmet Mushrooms. They grow more varieties of organic culinary and nutraceutical mushrooms than any farm in America. They harvest eight varieties of organic specialty mushrooms for America's finest restaurants, specialty food wholesalers and gourmet grocers. Gourment Mushrooms mycelial biomass and tinctures are valued for nutraceutical compounding by manufacturers worldwide.

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