Cooking with Mushrooms: A Fungi Lover's Guide to the World's Most Versatile, Flavorful, Health-Boosting Ingredients

A travel writer and award-winning photographer shares close to 100 recipes featuring mushrooms as both a food and a flavor including Soupy Eggs with Chanterelles, Mushroom Larb, Mushroom Ragu and Roast Chicken with Miso Mushroom Butter. 25,000 first printing. Illustrations.
"With an abundance of varieties, deep flavors, toothy textures, and strong medicinal power, mycelium is what we should all be eating more of! The benefits of a mushroom-rich diet have long been embraced in Asian and European cuisines, but until very recently, many home cooks in America have found themselves limited to buttons and portobellos. Now Cooking with Mushrooms by Andrea Gentl offers 40 recipes that introduces readers to the world of mushrooms, from crimini to chanterelles to maitake, morels, andreishi. Whether it's savory mushroom porridge for breakfast, bucatini pasta with hen-of-the-woods for dinner, or even a lava cake made with brown butter and lion's mane for dessert-Gentl guides readers through the best uses of common and lesser-known mushrooms, with expert advice on how to store, clean, and dehydrate them for your pantry. There are main dishes like mushroom carnitas tacos that satisfy even more than meat; healing recipes like a golden turmeric, mushroom, and black garlic broth; inventivecocktails like a mezcal and mushroom Negroni; and staples like mushroom salt, paste, and other preserves that can elevate any dish with a boost of umami. In a stunning package featuring vibrant photographs by Gentl, Cooking with Mushrooms celebrates the beauty and culinary possibilities of these mighty mycelia"--
Named a Best Cookbook of 2022 by Bon Appetit In her extraordinary first cookbook, Andrea Gentl brings to her subject equal parts knowledge and technique, along with a unique passion and sensibility. From sprinkling adaptogenic powder over granola to reinventing schnitzel with king trumpets, Cooking with Mushrooms expands our ideas of how to use mushrooms as both a food and a flavor, a seasoning and the star of the plate. Here are a variety of mushroom broths to make you feel better. Breakfast recipes like Soupy Eggs with Chanterelles. Mushroom Larb or a Crispy Shiitake “Bacon” Endive Wedge Salad makes the perfect lunch. Mushroom Ragu or a Roast Chicken with Miso Mushroom Butter can change the dinner game, and a Maple Mushroom Ice Cream will transform your ideas about dessert. The dishes might sound familiar—lasagna, risotto, a bourguignon, brownies—but the ingredients and flavors are as unexpected as they are delicious. In all, Cooking with Mushrooms features nearly 100 recipes that unlock the powerful flavors and health-giving properties of the world’s most magical ingredient.
Cooking with Mushrooms offers nearly 100 home-cook-friendly recipes that optimize the flavors, textures, and healing powers of mushrooms for inspired meals any time of the day—from food and travel writer and award-winning photographer Andrea Gentl.
In her extraordinary first cookbook, Andrea Gentl brings to her subject equal parts knowledge and technique, along with a unique passion and sensibility. From sprinkling adaptogenic powder over granola to reinventing schnitzel with king trumpets, Cooking with Mushrooms expands our ideas of how to use mushrooms as both a food and a flavor, a seasoning and the star of the plate.Here are a variety of mushroom broths to make you feel better. Breakfast recipes like Soupy Eggs with Chanterelles. Mushroom Larb or a Crispy Shiitake “Bacon” Endive Wedge Salad makes the perfect lunch. Mushroom Ragu or a Roast Chicken with Miso Mushroom Butter can change the dinner game, and a Maple Mushroom Ice Cream will transform your ideas about dessert.The dishes might sound familiar—lasagna, risotto, a bourguignon, brownies—but the ingredients and flavors are as unexpected as they are delicious. In all, Cooking with Mushrooms features nearly 100 recipes that unlock the powerful flavors and health-giving properties of the world’s most magical ingredient.