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Shroom: Mind-bendingly Good Recipes for Cultivated and Wild Mushrooms Hardcover – September 9, 2014

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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (September 9, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449448267
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449448264
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.9 x 10.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #325,515 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 starsWide Variety of Delicious Recipes
By Jill on September 21, 2014
Format: Hardcover
When I saw this book, I knew I had to read it. I have an obsession with mushrooms. They are possibly my favorite ingredient, and in my humble opinion they can make any dish, simple or complicated, all the more delicious. That said, I am an omnivore and do enjoy my meat as well as vegetables and fungi. I was very pleasantly surprised that almost all of these recipes, most of which are without meat, sounded amazing to me. This is a very vegetarian book, as I mentioned a lot of the recipes don't call for meat at all. The ones that do have meat offer instructions for substitutions.

I really liked the amount of special notes and tips that the author provided in this book, such as what mushrooms are interchangeable if one variety isn't available, or how to swap proteins. Each chapter of this book highlights a different kind of mushroom, and at the beginning of the section there's tips and instructions on where to find them, how to freeze or preserve them, when they're grown, and more fun little facts. There's also in depth instructions on how to clean each mushroom variety and how to find them yourself in nature. Plus, she provides links to videos online that can help as well.

Becky writes her recipes in an easy-to-approach manner, with a good dash of humor and snark. It felt like I was getting recipe advice from a friend, and I really liked that tone. These recipes offer both simple dishes and complex ones, but each is written in the same chill tone of "hey, you can totally make this."

The pictures that are provided are stunning, but I do wish that there would have been more pictures of the completed dishes. I am very much a visual person when it comes to cooking, and I like looking at what I should have been creating to see if I am still in the same ballpark.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBeautiful treat for mushroom lovers
By Marcianne Miller on April 1, 2015
Format: Hardcover
What a treat for fungi nuts! This gorgeously illustrated book is designed to take you on a “global culinary journey” of mushrooms—with recipes for 14 cultivated and wild mushrooms, ranging from button and Portobello to matsutake. The dishes, mostly vegetarian, range from Asian, Indian, Italian and more. The book’s layout is so good, as a former book editor, I just turned the pages in sheer admiration before I dove into it. The recipes are clearly divided into three stages of chef experience—easy, intermediate, to advanced. (Yes, I’ve already charged into a few of the beginning recipes and so far so good!) Included is a list of book-related internet videos to help with tasks that are often mystifying to beginning cooks, such as how to clean mushrooms and preserve them. It’s full of tips you wish someone had told you before, such as never put the mushrooms in plastic bags (they turn mushy), and why you shouldn’t eat them raw (they’re blah--cooking makes them taste better). Tailgate market time is coming soon – which means lots of hand-loved fungi delicacies are waiting to be taken home in a brown paper bag.
--Excerpted from review in Rapid River Arts & Culture magazine in Asheville, NC
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5.0 out of 5 starsFungi for fun guys
By wiredweird HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWER on December 8, 2014
Format: Hardcover
This big, beautiful volume provides a wealth of information about culinary mushrooms, collected in the wild or store-bought. It begins with general introductory information, including cleaning them (esp from the wild), drying, and other basics. Then, chapter by chapter, it goes over the specifics of each kind: special considerations and substitutes, as well as a handful of tempting recipes for each. Even skilled cooks might not be familiar with the full range offered here, so there's plenty for a very wide range of readers.

This tends toward the practical, with emphasis on what you can find in stores, Asian grocers in particular, or in North American wilds. By intent, it makes no effort to cover every edible species, or even the whole range found in familiar cuisines - straw and nameko mushrooms, commonly found only canned in the US, both cede their page-space to species available fresh. Still, it covers more different kinds (and kinds of preparations) than all but the most studious of chefs have experienced. Informative, gorgeously illustrated, and full of promise for great dishes - just about anyone who cooks will find something to enjoy here.

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5.0 out of 5 starsMind-bendingly Good Indeed!
By Christine Keating on September 29, 2014
Format: Hardcover
Disclaimer: I think Becky is the shiznit. We have taken cooking classes from her at our local grocery store and she recently came to our home to cook a gourmet meal (with lots of mushrooms) for a birthday celebration. She is fun to be around and funny, but most of all knows her stuff. That said, I'm doing my best to give an honest review of this cookbook.

Here goes: It's AWESOME. Set aside for a moment that it's full of wonderfully delicious recipes (which it is). It's actually fun to read! Becky includes lots of cool information about mushrooms--how to pick them (at the store), how to clean them, how to cook them, nerd factoids, and a fabulously funny quiz that lets you figure out what kind of mushroom you are. It is also full of funny personal anecdotes that litterally had me laughing out loud. Each recipe is preceeded by a description of where the recipe came from and other information that is helpful to a home cook. Some of them are also very funny (like the soup that she said was good to make if you are listening to Thai music and have zebra running through your living room in honor of its Thai/West Africa origins). The photos are gorgeous and make your mouth water, and each recipe has notes about what to drink with it...some call for wine, and I noticed one called for a margarita! Yum!

Then, the recipes...wow! Let me start with this: my husband has said for years that he doesn't like mushrooms. He thinks they're gross and taste like dirt. That was then. This is now: he will tell you that he likes mushrooms when they're cooked "The Becky Way!" In fact, we've now eaten at least 6-8 dishes from this cookbook and he hasn't found a mushroom he doesn't like yet! If that's not a good cookbook, I don't know what is!Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starslove this book bought it for a Christmas gift

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5.0 out of 5 stars'Shrooms are Super!

Shroom by Becky Selengut breaks down the recipes by mushrooms. I enjoyed reading the differences and similarities as it gives me a better idea when I'm using mushrooms in my... Read more

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5.0 out of 5 starsNot just button mushrooms in the pantry

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Published 8 months ago by DelAnne
5.0 out of 5 starsOh so delicious...

Love this, love mushrooms. My partner and I are learning more about local mushrooms and aiming to forage more. When we find them, this tells us how to cook them.

Published 9 months ago by Laura McLeod
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Excellent

Published 11 months ago by Martha Graham Buse
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The recipes are okay.

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great book

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this is a gift for a friend who eats mushrooms and she will learn more about and how to prepare than internet searching

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