I segreti delle piante e della cucina dei conventi

Moselio Schaechter
Harvard University Press

In a style at once learned and quirky, personal and commanding, Elio Schaechter imparts the fascinating minutiae and the weighty implications of his subject - a primarily microscopic life form that nonetheless accounts for up to two tons of matter for every human on the planet. He shows us how fungi, the great decomposers, recycle most of the world's vegetable matter - from a blade of grass to a strapping tree - and thus prevent us from sinking under ever-accumulating masses of decaying matter. With the same expertise and contagious enthusiasm that he brings to the biology of mushrooms, Schaechter conveys the allure of the mushroom hunt. Drawing on his own experience as well as that of seasoned pickers and amateur mycologists, he explains when and where to find mushrooms, how they are cultivated, and how they are used in various cultures. From the delectable to the merely tolerable, from the hallucinogenic to the deadly, a wide variety of mushrooms are covered in this spirited presentation.

Cecil Clutton, George Daniels
Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications

Gabriele Lalli, Gabriela Noris
Ferrari SpA

Carlo Andò, Louis Plessis
Edizioni del Tornese

Fernando Lizzi
Sagep

Luigi Cremona
s.e.

s.a.
Trianon de Bagatelle

Lucienne Faletto Landi
Musumeci Editeur

Guido Scaramellini e Oscar Scheffer
Edizioni Mevio Washington e figlio

Anny
Edizioni Mediterranee

s.a.
A. Vallardi

Maurizio Morelli
Edizioni Piemme