Totally Mushroom Cookbook

by Karen Gillingham and Helene Siegel

Book Overview

Shiitake, oyster, porcini, chanterelle... whether you like your mushrooms wild or tamed, you'll find plenty to eat in this pocket-size book on fabulous fungi, with recipes such as Mushroom... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890877270
• ISBN13: 9780890877272
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Celestial Arts
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Great for mushroom lovers

I agree that there are some great recipes packed in this little book. We've loved the recipes we've tried so far, and I have a dozen or more flagged that we'll try over the coming weeks. The author includes explanations and descriptions of all of the mushrooms that are used in the recipes, and great little facts. If white domestic mushrooms are all that's available near you, you probably shouldn't buy this (or any other) mushroom cookbook. Our local grocery store carries about 6-7 types of fresh mushroom and a decent variety of dried mushrooms -- so I haven't had any problems finding the right ingredients. The book is a little hard to cook from since it won't lay flat or stay open. I usually have to set a jar or something on it to hold it open to the page I'm on, and since it's so tiny, the jar winds up covering half of the book, so it's definitely not a hands free type of cookbook. Otherwise, it's worth the price. The mushroom barley soup and the Grecque mushrooms are both yummy and very simple to make.

Scrumptious recipes for the mushroom lover

The first few recipes are not too impressive - salads with mushrooms... lots of different salads, just add mushrooms. Recipes like the Mushroom Pecan Paté, however, make the book worth its weight in mushrooms.The book has dozens of scrumptious recipes for different mushroom varieties... quite a bit is jammed into this tiny book.I have two major gripes, however, that reduce this book to a 4-star review. While the die-cut shape of the book is whimsical, the pages are not easy to turn and the book will not lay flat. While there is a colorful illustration of different mushroom varieties on the front cover, there are only scant drawings of different mushrooms throughout the book and the drawings are not labeled and are more for aesthetic purposes and do not denote that these are the mushrooms for the recipe at hand. Unless you are a bonafide chef (in which case you probably wouldn't need this book) and go to specialty stores, most people will not run across these mushrooms at the local supermarket. Mushrooms don't have a very long shelf-life and unless you get them dried or know of a market that specializes in mushroom varieties, most of these species will be unheard of and mysterious.If you don't live next to a "Central Market" or other specialty store that carries a variety of mushrooms, you'll be out of luck identifying some of the varieties covered here, but if you have experience w/ many varieties of mushrooms, but haven't been too successful in bringing out their flavor, this book will be just the help you needed.

A must-have for mushroom lovers!

I picked this cookbook up on a whim, and thank goodness I did! This clever little book is necessary for anyone who loves cooking and experimenting with mushrooms. Not only does it have the most delicious recipes, but I love the narrative that goes down the sides of most of the pages. It is here that you learn about all different exotic mushrooms, fresh vs. dried, etc. The mushroom barley soup is the best we've had, and we haven't been disappointed with any other recipe either. I've given this book to every true mushroom lover I know!