Herrera Homestead
One Thousand American Fungi
One Thousand American Fungi
One Thousand American Fungi By Charles McILvaine and Robert K. Macadam 837p Because of the size of this book. I will split it into 4 volumes.
Physical book purchase comes with digital copy
Introduction
A SCORE of years ago (1880-1885) I was living in the mountains of West Virginia. While riding on horseback through the dense forests of that great unfenced state, I saw on every side luxuriant growths of fungi, so inviting in color, cleanliness and flesh that it occurred to me they ought to be eaten. I remembered having read a short time before this inspiration seized me a very interesting article in the Popular Science Monthly for May, 1877, written by Mr. Julius A. Palmer, Jr., entitled "Toadstool Eating." Hunting it up I studied it carefully, and soon found myself interested in a delightful study which was not without immediate reward. Up to this time I had been living, literally, on the fat of the land—bacon; but my studies enabled me to supplement this, the staple dish of the state, with a vegetable luxury that centuries ago graced the dinners of the Cæsars. So absorbing did the study become from gastronomic, culinary and scientific points of view, that I have continued it ever since, with thorough intellectual enjoyment and much gratification of appetite as my reward. I hope to interest students in the study as I am myself interested.
Please Note
All Paperback books are printed and hand bound by me in our home. They are printed on standard printer paper using 120# card stock for the cover.
Im a bit new to book binding. So the finish may not be perfect. But I will do my very best to make you a fine product. As time goes on and I get more experience, the books will become much nicer finish wise.
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