The Complete Book of Mushrooms / Augusto Rinaldi, Vassili Tyndalo ; translated from the Italian by Italia and Alberto Mancinelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rinaldi, Augusto.

Tyndalo, Vassili, author.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Atlante dei funghi. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Mushrooms--Identification.

Mushrooms.

Fungi.

Medical Subjects:

Fungi.

Genre:

Field guides.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

310, [2] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc.,

Place of Publication:

New York : Crescent Books, 1985.

Contents:

Part One. Preface; Looking for Mushrooms; Mushrooms and Their Habitat; The Identification of Mushrooms and Other Fungi

Part Two. Fungi: An Outline of Some of Their Characteristics; How to Preserve Mushrooms; Nutrient Properties of Mushrooms; Mushrooms in the Kitchen; Gastronomic Classification of Mushrooms; Ignorance on Trial; The Poisonous Mushrooms; The Cultivation of Mushrooms; A Brief Outline of the History of Mycology; Identification of the Most Common Genera; Etymology of Scientific Terms; A Short Dictionary of Scientific Terms; A Short List of Mushrooms Found in North America.

Notes:

"With 20 photographs and 634 colour illustrations of species and varieties"--Title page.

Originally published in 1972 by Arnoldo Mondadori Publisher under title 'L'Atlante dei funghi'.

Includes bibliographical references (page 306) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has hand written bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0517514931

9780517514931

OCLC:

12081141