In the company of mushrooms : a biologist's tale / Elio Schaechter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaechter, Moselio, author.

Contributor:

Harvard University. Press, publisher.

Harvard University, copyright holder.

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

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mushrooms.

Edible mushrooms.

Basidiomycota.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

xvi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England ; Harvard University Press, 1997.

Summary:

We might savor them in a salad or a sauce, wonder at their power to intoxicate or poison, marvel at their multifarious presence in the forestbut few of us realize that mushrooms, humbly thriving on decay, are crucial to life on Earth as we know it. In this book a distinguished biologist reveals the power of these curious organismsnot quite animal, not quite plantto enchant and instruct, to nourish and make way for all sorts of superior forms of nature. 16 color illus. 18 b&w.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index.

"Copyright © 1997 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College" -- title page verso.

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 the bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

ISBN:

0674445546

9780674445543

OCLC:

35750357