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There is one book, peer-reviewed and published by a university press and used by tens of thousands of Americans for nearly two decades, that actually enables beginners to identify the best, most common, safest, most delicious species of edible wild mushrooms! Now in its ninth printing, this is the long-proven, best-selling mushroom book specifically designed to answer the question, "Can I eat it?"even for the novice! 21 years and hundreds of thousands of wild mushroom meals since its debut, this remains the definitive work: sometimes imitated but never bettered, and selling more copies year after year. 70 recipes.

By Alan & Arleen Bessette and David W. Fischer1997, Syracuse Univ. PressThis four-pound, 582-page book is encyclopedic in scope and in its organization.It includes 642 color photos and innovative keys to some 1, 500 species.(For the purposes of this book, the "Northeast" is east of the Rockies andfrom Tennessee and North Carolina northward.)7 x 10 inches, 582 pages, 642 color photos.

Peterson Field Guide Series - A Field Guide to Mushrooms of North AmericaBy Kent and Vera McKnight1987, Houghton MifflinA compact, portable field guide covering over 1, 000 species, with more than700 paintings and drawings of mushrooms (over 400 in color); paintings and drawings, rather than photos, in many cases show details better. Big drawback is its use of"common" names that no one actually uses except for folks who have only this one book,