Mushroom Hunting Season is drawing nigh!

[Banshee16]

Last fall I went for a walk in the woods with some guests and stumbled across a HUGE patch of blewits - lovely purple shaded things! I brought 'em home and fried 'em up, and my friends (who were Russians, also consumate mushroom hunters) were delighted.

So then ... any other mushroom lovers out there?

And please - no jokes about being a cannibal!

I love mushrooms, but what with so much indoctrination about not eating mushrooms one finds in the wild, has resulted in the only mushroom hunting I do being in the supermarket.

I've got a family member who is a biologist specializing in fungi and molds, and I'm sure she could teach about safe types and all, but I've never really approached her on the topic.

Banshee

 

[Mycanid]

Well Banshee ... if you live in a place that is abundant in edible mushrooms then their very presence is probably the biggest incentive. But I also find looking at the pictures of mushrooms themselves to have been an equally effective incentive for myself.... That's why I like the Arora books (mentioned earlier). Real good and accurate pictures and descriptions.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I used to work for a company that was developing a bioartificial liver. One of our principle investgators was a doctor (expert in the liver, a hepatologist?) in the San Francisco area. Around this time of year he knew many foolish, uninformed people would go out mushroom picking, would choose poisonous ones and end up under his care. To "celebrate" this time of year he wore his mushroom tie to work. He had a twisted sense of humor.

Personally since I don't like mushrooms, I cannot get into the mushroom, but I've read a few articles about it and can understand why people do. Good hunting to you all.

 

[Mycanid]

Thornir - WHAT? No love for mushrooms? What did you DO when you went to Green Lakes during the spring, summer and autumn?

To be fair though ... I did not really get "into" mushroom until I got out to the West Coast. But while in upstate NY I certainly did go to Green Lakes State Park, walked around the lakes and off the paths and up the hillsides.... It was amazingly beautiful there. I still have dreams about the place some time. It had the most amazing moss-drenched, gnarl-rooted trees there....