Badham believed the English were starving amid plenty by neglecting the wild mushrooms of their fields and woods. He surveys the classical history of fungi, their forms, colours, tastes and odours, their remarkable power of growth, and then describes edible species one by one with notes on cooking and preserving, as edited after his death by Frederick Currey.
A charming landmark of English mycophagy, to be enjoyed as history and never used as a modern field guide. Download the free EPUB.