Important: Safety Warning
This page offers rules for telling edible mushrooms from poisonous ones. No such rules are reliable, and these identifications predate modern mycology. Deadly species closely resemble edible ones, and mistakes are regularly fatal. Never eat a wild mushroom on the strength of this text.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Two Esculents Par Excellence
Two Esculents Par Excellence
T "Avec les truffes, et avec quelques-uns de ces excellents champignons si admirablement analyses par M. Roques, vous refaites la cuisine…
Two Esculents Par Excellence: Provence
By general consent Périgord is credited with producing the best truffles, the next in commercial repute being those obtained from Provence…
Two Esculents Par Excellence: France
Of recent years artificial truffières have been largely planted in the favoured districts of southern France. To M. Rousseau, a proprietor…
Two Esculents Par Excellence: Moynier
The truffle has formed the theme of numerous books and treatises. To the French gastronomer who may obtain the fresh product during a large…
Two Esculents Par Excellence: Savarin
Savarin, above all writers, has considered the truffle philosophically in his comparatively brief reference; and although he failed to…
Two Esculents Par Excellence: Harkness
Harkness, in 1899, issued in the California Academy of Science Proceedings an illustrated article on the Hypogæus Fungi of California…
Two Esculents Par Excellence: Fairy-ring
Who has not seen and wondered at the Fairy-ring, dotting the lawns or pastures, with its eccentric habit of growing in circles or arcs of…
Two Esculents Par Excellence: Amanitas
Of Morels and puff-balls none is said to be poi- The puff-ball, however, is unfit for eating, if not absolutely poisonous, after the…
Two Esculents Par Excellence: State
Of the scores of treatises devoted to the subject may be specially instanced W. Hamilton Gibson's artistic volume,¹ the finely illustrated…
Two Esculents Par Excellence: Botany
By George Francis Atkinson, Professor of Botany in Cornell University and Botanist of the Cornell University Experiment Station, Author of…