Joe's Book of Mushroom Cookery Author:Jack Czarnecki More than 300 recipes from Joe's Restaurant in Reading, PA. — Wild mushroom photography by the author, food photography by Sally Shenk Ullman, food styling by Barbara Fritz. Includes chapters on identifying mushrooms, cooking in soup, first courses, for fish, poultry, meat, game with wild mushrooms, and mushroom desserts. Includes a bibliography ... more »and index.
Chapter headings are as follows:
Introduction, definitions and culinary characteristics of selected mushrooms,
Starting points: buying, keepng and cooking mushrooms,
Duxelles, sauces, stocks, extracts, and other basic preparations,
Mushrooms in soup,
Mushroom dishes for light lunch or brunch,
First courses,
Mushrooms with fish, poultry, meat,
Furred game with wild mushrooms,
Mushrooms with pasta and as side dishes,
Some recipes for very wild mushrooms,
Mushroomless desserts,
Situations and menus,
Caveats and new friends,
Bibliography.
With the ready availability of an enormous variety of mushrooms fresh, dried, and canned the long out-of-print Joe's Book of Mushroom Cookery will be welcomed by mushroom hunters and home cooks alike. Written by the award-winning former chef-proprietor of Joe's Restaurant, Jack Czarnecki, the book instructs the reader on how to choose, prepare, and best take advantage of the unique tastes and textures of all kinds of edible mushrooms. Supplemented by menu plans and a list of mycological clubs, this is the ultimate in eating and reading pleasure for mushroom fans the world over. Jack lives in Reading, Pennsylvania.« less