Edible Mushrooms Of Newfoundland

How to select, pick, and prepare a variety of edible wild mushrooms, with recipes. Professional forager Shawn Dawson takes readers to his favorite mushroom picking spots for insightful and useful lessons on dozens of forest floor delicacies. Readers will learn where to look for mushrooms, as well as how to identify which ones are edible, harvest them sustainably, and prepare their harvest. Mushroom foraging requires attention to detail and solid knowledge -- while over two dozen edible mushroom varieties are found in Newfoundland, many hundreds of toxic ones exist. Knowing which is which and exercising an abundance of caution is a must. That's why Shawn's step-by-step guide is so useful. Readers will start by getting to know the parts of the mushroom and key identifiers. Then he'll introduce "the core four" -- golden chanterelles, winter chanterelles, hedgehogs, and sweet tooth mushrooms -- easily identified, abundant and delicious mushrooms for the burgeoning fungi hunter to look for. Edible Mushrooms of Newfoundland includes tips for dehydrating, pickling, and other methods of preserving mushrooms to enjoy all year long. It also includes mushroom-forward recipes from some of the province's top chefs.

Join professional forager Shawn Dawson on a guided tour of the forests, fields, bogs, barrens, cliffsides and shorelines of Newfoundland. Along the way, you?ll learn to identify more than 50 edible plants?including trees, weeds, berries, and fruit?and how and when to harvest them sustainably.This is a must-have book for anyone interested in food security, eating locally, and cooking with the freshest possible ingredients. Hundreds of full-colour photographs make Forager?s Dinner a gorgeous and insightful journey into the natural bounty that surrounds us.Dawson also provides plenty of ideas for preparing and preserving what you pick. Also included are recipes featuring locally sourced wild food from more than a dozen of Newfoundland?s best-known chefs.

A must-have for mushroom hunters in the northeast The Northeast is one of the best places to find mushrooms; they are both abundant and spectacularly diverse. Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada is a compact, beautifully illustrated guide packed with descriptions and photographs of more than 400 of the region's most conspicuous, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms. The geographic range covered by the book includes Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Ontario, and most of Quebec. In addition to profiles on individual species, Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada also includes a general discussion and definition of fungi; information on where to find mushrooms and guidelines on collecting them; an overview of fungus ecology; and a discussion on mushroom poisoning and how to avoid it.

A guide to over five dozen edible plant species that grow wild in Newfoundland and Labrador. Includes habitats in which each can be found, basic recipes, a glossary, and references so that you, too, can enjoy the bounty that exists outside our doors. Colour photographs. Durable, waterproof cover.

A beautiful, well-constructed guide to more than 130 of Newfoundland and Labrador's woody plants. Inside, you'll find icons that aid at-a-glance scanning of each species, tabs that show each plant's favoured habitats, photos of each plant's key features, and details to help you identify plants and broaden your knowledge.

“In this remarkable new cookbook, Bergo provides stories, photographs and inventive recipes.”—Star Tribune As Seen on NBC's The Today Show! "With a passion for bringing a taste of the wild to the table, [Bergo’s] inspiration for experimentation shows in his inventive dishes created around ingredients found in his own backyard."—Tastemade From root to flower—and featuring 180 recipes and over 230 of the author’s own beautiful photographs—explore the edible plants we find all around us with the Forager Chef Alan Bergo as he breaks new culinary ground! In The Forager Chef’s Book of Flora you’ll find the exotic to the familiar—from Ramp Leaf Dumplings to Spruce Tip Panna Cotta to Crisp Fiddlehead Pickles—with Chef Bergo’s unique blend of easy-to-follow instruction and out-of-this-world inspiration. Over the past fifteen years, Minnesota chef Alan Bergo has become one of America’s most exciting and resourceful culinary voices, with millions seeking his guidance through his wildly popular website and video tutorials. Bergo’s inventive culinary style is defined by his encyclopedic curiosity, and his abiding, root-to-flower passion for both wild and cultivated plants. Instead of waiting for fall squash to ripen, Bergo eagerly harvests their early shoots, flowers, and young greens—taking a holistic approach to cooking with all parts of the plant, and discovering extraordinary new flavors and textures along the way. The Forager Chef’s Book of Flora demonstrates how understanding the different properties and growing phases of roots, stems, leaves, and seeds can inform your preparation of something like the head of an immature sunflower—as well as the lesser-used parts of common vegetables, like broccoli or eggplant. As a society, we’ve forgotten this type of old-school knowledge, including many brilliant culinary techniques that were borne of thrift and necessity. For our own sake, and that of our planet, it’s time we remembered. And in the process, we can unlock new flavors from the abundant landscape around us. “[An] excellent debut. . . . Advocating that plants are edible in their entirety is one thing, but this [book] delivers the delectable means to prove it."—Publishers Weekly "Alan Bergo was foraging in the Midwest way before it was trendy."—Outside Magazine