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Joe, I'm very reluctant to advise folks to eat poke because of the toxins. I've eaten it for over 50 years, but the secret is in the preparation. I believe it...
I have Linda Runyon's book, "The Essential Wild Food Survival Guide". I'm not sure how essential it is, but she definitely knows what she's talking about. All...
Go Ila Hatter's web site. I have 3 of her videos and also took both her Smoky Mtn Field School workshops. Also Jim Duke on the web. Sent from my iPhone ... Go...
Not sure what it is worth, but back in the day we only ate polk (Polk Salet Annie, Gator Got Your Granny....WooHoo) in it's smallest, youngest stage......like...
Well, if I had a dollar for every shoot of poke I've eaten I'd probably be living in the islands, sipping rum punch. We always picked poke until it was past...
We never had the benefit of grandmas wisdom....caution was our only guidance....and it worked well enough. Multiple boilings never interested me on...
Allen's cannery-Little Rock Arkansas ... From: Robert Sprenger To: AshevilleMushroomClub@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 2:49 PM Subject: Re:...
i tried ackee for the first time recently. didn't really like it. but i have a friend who lived in Jamaica and she loves it. but yeah, deadly stuff if not...
Hi Jan, I found a some mature reishi and a half mature chicken today in Weaverville, photos below. No chants yet or pictus but did find five Suillus granulatus...
nice find alan! ... -- "Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed;...
Okay, I am going to risk looking like a fool.....but as all experienced people in the mushroom world  know, 'tings change. What happened to Ganoderma lucidum...
I will quote from William C. Roody's "Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians". Quote, 'referring to Ganoderma tsugae'. "This beautiful fungus...
There are pictures and descriptions of Ganoderma lucidum and tsugae in the Audubon Guide and also in Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States. Joe On Wed,...
First of all, please DO NOT resend the photos!!!! It has taken me over 2 hours to receive 3 emails. Just clip them before replying. It's probably better to...
I do volunteer for Brother Wolf Animal Rescue in Asheville. This week I was helping with their thrift store, Second Chances, when this casserole dish came in...
Found polypore in the woods. Looks like its old chicken but does not resemble the typical coloring, structure. found at the bottom of the tree. when cut the...
Found it. My experience with Black Staining Polypore is that it definitely has black streaking all over, especially when old. Doesn't taste bad when young...
I found small chanterelles on May 20 in a place that usually comes in early. Photo is in my photo file "Whitey". Very small, but it's time to to begin thinking...
FYI - Never been on a foray where this was collected, because it's easily overlooked I guess. Very unusual morphology. In my photo album "Whitey" and see Roody...
Hi Michael, It looks like a chicken that dried out. See if it tastes like tart, crumbly cardboard. I think it's too chunky and not blackened enough for...
It didnt crumble like chicken does had more of the texture of fibrous meat like substance. ALso had pinkinsh color when you teart it. It did not have a chicken...
Found about a dozen small to medium early chanterelles today in Polk County - Columbus area (about 45 min east of Asheville down I-26) Elevation 1100'. They...