This beautiful guide to buying, storing, and cooking more than twenty varieties of wild and cultivated mushrooms (and truffles!) also collects 125 mouthwatering recipes. More than one hundred color photographs capture the unique characteristics and, indeed, 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 or in the hands of a nature lover.
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"A stunningly beautiful cookbook feast for the eyes. Philippe Emanuelli's recipes take a Eurocentric approach to using a variety of fungi in dishes both basic and complex." —Shelf Awareness
