Mushrooming without Fear, Book Review

Mushrooms are great for food and for medicine. I really love them. I love studying them and can identify them from pictures in the books I read. What I really wanted to be able to do was to go into the woods and feel confident about finding, picking and later eating the mushrooms. For some reason there were two mushrooms that I felt clear about identifying: one was Turkey Tail, Trametes Versicolor. The other was Hemlock Reishi. But, besides these two kinds of mushrooms, no other mushrooms seemed obvious. I was never sure of what I was looking at. And, if I picked and ate them, I worried about getting sick, and even dying. [...]

Shroom: A Cultural History Of The Magic Mushroom

If you are interested in magic mushrooms, you need to read the book “Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom” by Andy Letcher. You may or may not agree with many of his viewpoints and conclusions. But read it you must! [...]