The Mushroom Book contains a comprehensive collection of rare and common mushrooms. Each fungi entry contains information on it's class, size, spore deposit, habitat, range and fruiting. Each entry also contains info as to whether or not the fungus is edible or toxic. If you want to learn how to identify mushrooms in the wild then this book is a great start. The final pages of this book deal with actual methods of cooking edible mushrooms and even contains recipes mushroom related.