Lavishly illustrated with nearly three hundred gorgeous full-color photos; this engaging guidebook carefully describes forty different edible species of wild mushrooms found around Illinois and surrounding states; including Iowa; Wisconsin; Missouri; Indiana; and Kentucky. With conversational and witty prose; the book provides extensive detail on each edible species; including photographs of potential look-alikes to help you safely identify and avoid poisonous species. Mushroom lovers from Chicago to Cairo will find their favorite local varieties; including morels; chanterelles; boletes; puffballs; and many others. Veteran mushroom hunters Joe McFarland and Gregory M. Mueller also impart their wisdom about the best times and places to find these hidden gems.Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States also offers practical advice on preparing; storing; drying; and cooking with wild mushrooms; presenting more than two dozen tantalizing mushroom recipes from some of the best restaurants and chefs in Illinois; including one of Food Wine magazine's top 10 new chefs of 2007. Recipes include classics like Beer Battered Morels; Parasol Mushroom Frittatas; and even the highly improbable (yet delectable) Morel Tiramisu for dessert.As the first new book about Illinois mushrooms in more than eighty years; this is the guide that mushroom hunters and cooks have been craving.Visit the book's companion website at www.illinoismushrooms.com.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Heroine of the HolocaustBy CustomerThere is a reason that Anne Frank's diary is the most widely read book of all time; the sole exception being the Bible. It was written with remarkable frankness by a genuinely gifted and precocious human being who experienced all of the typical anxieties of her adolescent contemporaries; although almost none of the non-Jewish Dutch teenagers of that era faced the peril of deportation and therefore subsequent death in one of Hitler's various German concentration camps or extermination centers in Nazi-occupied Poland. Anne's unique perspectives on daily life in the Netherlands while hidden away in an annex behind the office of a spice warehouse; provides the historic backdrop of what it must have been like for the hundreds of thousands of Jews in Occupied Europe who hid from the Nazis during the Second World War. She remains Adolf Hitler's most famous victim; first among legions of legendary; historic martyrs and heroes.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Cross-Section of Anne Frank ScholarshipBy Timothy HaughIn this book the editors have selected thirty-one excerpts from various writings about Anne Frank and collected them together under four basic ideas: Anne's life; Anne as a writer; Anne on stage screen and Anne in relationship to the Holocaust. Overall the selection of the writings is very good. They are of high quality and of varying points of view; particularly with reference to the last three sections of the book.For example; there is considerable difference of opinion to Anne's ability as a writer; some find her skills exceptional while others think her ability overrated despite her impact. Better known are the arguments over whether the play and movie produced from Anne's diary truly reflected the "real" Anne. Then there are the arguments; growing in recent years; as to whether Anne's diary is an "accurate" or "important" portrayal of the Jewish experience during the Holocaust. I may not agree with Lawrence L. Langer's assessment that the diary is not a "vital text" of the Holocaust but seeing his point of view allows me to think a little deeper about my own position. And therein lies the book's real strength.Ultimately; though the excerpts are brief and it's easy to plow through them rather quickly; this book can open one's eyes. Some of the material I had read before in other places but I was very glad to encounter the wide points of view that the editors were able to gather. The fact that Anne's single work still has the power to generate such scholarship 60 years later seems to point out its continuing importance in our experience.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great buy for presentBy KasiaDelivery was successful for my godchild as a birthday gift. Delivery had to go to another state..and did so without any problems.
