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The Gourmand’s Mushroom: A Collection of Stories & Recipes is a beautifully designed celebration of mushrooms as food, medicine, myth, and cultural icon. Created by The Gourmand, this richly layered anthology blends culinary craft with cultural exploration. Through essays, photography, and original recipes, the book traces fungi’s strange and enduring power—from ancient folklore and toxicology to avant-garde art, architecture, fashion, film, and even space travel. Meet unexpected figures along the way, including Hieronymus Bosch, Beatrix Potter, María Sabina, Yayoi Kusama, and Takashi Murakami—all connected, in unexpected ways, to the mythology and symbolism of mushrooms. Alongside the cultural essays is a generous collection of original mushroom recipes celebrating their earthy, umami-rich depth. From Cantonese stuffed mushrooms and tempura to pierogi, risotto, wild mushroom ravioli, duxelles, and classic mushroom ketchup, this book is as practical as it is poetic. Introduced by acclaimed chef and food writer Jeremy Lee, The Gourmand’s Mushroom is at once a visual feast, a fanzine, a field guide, and a cookbook—an homage to fungi as fleeting marvels and endlessly inventive ingredients.