General Articles

General advice and information about cooking and eating wild mushrooms
 

Baskets of mushrooms from the 2013 Rogerson foray Photo by Leon Shernoff

Baskets of mushrooms from the 2013 Rogerson foray
Photo by Leon Shernoff

Preserving wild mushrooms

What to do in those joyous but pesky situations when you have too many mushrooms to eat all at once.


 

Edible Mushrooms

Advice and recipes for edible species
 

Oyster mushrooms on their tree. Photo by Suzanne Gaeta

Oyster mushrooms on their tree.
Photo by Suzanne Gaeta

Cooking with oysters

One of the most popular of all wild mushrooms.

Poisonous Mushrooms

Case studies of poisonous mushrooms
 

Amanita muscaria, illustration (by Louis Krieger) from Coville's 1897 circular

Amanita muscaria
Illustration by Louis Krieger, from Coville’s 1897 circular

Reflections on the Edibility of Amanita muscaria

A reconsideration of some recent ideas to regard Amanita muscaria as “just another edible.”

European Amanita regalis. Photo courtesy of Tjakko Stijve

European Amanita regalis
Photo courtesy of Tjakko Stijve

Some historical poisonings by Amanita regalis

Amanita regalis is a little-known but highly toxic mushroom.