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Book SynopsisI've never understood the passion that my friends have for hunting mushrooms. . . but now, after reading this gorgeous and vivacious book, I get it.Star Tribune
Victoria Romanoff picked her first mushroom a brown-capped butterpilz or sticky bun at the age of four, at her family's summer dacha on the shores of the Baltic Sea. Little did she realise that her newfound interest in mushrooming would soon become an essential survival skill, as she and her mother spent eight years in displaced persons camps in the aftermath of World War II, foraging wild foods to supplement their diets. Resettled in the United States, Romanoff has continued to pursue her mycological passion ever since, deploying her considerable culinary skills to convert friends and strangers to the joys of wild mushrooms. Now, in this marvellously written book, rich with anecdote, she shares the wisdom gathered from a lifetime on the hunt.
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“I’ve never understood the passion that my friends have for hunting mushrooms. . . but now, after reading this gorgeous and vivacious book, I get it.” - Star Tribune
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 7 1. King Bolete Bolete Custard Tart 2. Chanterelle Chanterelle Soup 3. Caesar’s Mushroom Raw Caesar Platter 4. Black Trumpet or Horn of Plenty Black Trumpets with Polenta OUTINGS • JUNE 5. Slippery Jack & Tamarack Jack Slippery Jack Skewers 6. Morel Morels in Cream Sauce over Pasta 7. Meadow Mushroom Meadow Mushrooms on Potato Pancakes 8. Shaggy Mane or Shaggy Ink Cap Shaggy Manes Gratin OUTINGS • JULY 9. Oyster Mushroom Oyster Mushrooms over Cod or Haddock 10. Chicken Mushroom or Sulfur Shelf Sulfur Shelf Pizza 11. Giant Puffball & Warted Puffball or Perlatum Baked Puffball Perlatum over Squash 12. Parasol Mushroom & Shaggy Parasol Mushroom Stuffed Parasol Caps OUTINGS • AUGUST & SEPTEMBER Wild Mushroom Pâté RECOMMENDED READING INDEX
