A Cook’s Book of Mushrooms: With 100 Recipes for Common and Uncommon Varieties (Hardcover)
From Library Journal
Just a few years ago, the only mushrooms available in most markets were cultivated white ones. Now even supermarkets often have portobellos and shiitakes, and specialty markets offer a wide selection. Czarnecki, chef/proprietor of Joe’s Restaurant in eastern Pennsylvania, is well known as a mushroom authority. He writes about mushroom hunting in almost mystical terms while providing reliable information on a great variety of common and exotic mushrooms, both cultivated and wild. He also includes 100 mushroom recipes, many of them quite unusual; all are accompanied by wine suggestions. Jane Grigson’s The Mushroom Feast (1975) remains notable but was published 20 years ago; most libraries will want this up (more…)








