It is no secret that Europeans love mushrooms, and for good reason. Mushrooms may have very well saved their forebearers from the wide spread famines that periodically occurred. In times of starvation people people actively sought many of these widespread and abundant edibles.
There are many health benefits from eating mushrooms. Fungi are not like plants because they contain vitamin D and they are rich in B vitamins. These delicacies are also a passable meat substitute, sometime referred to as the "other white meat". Mushrooms actively boost the immune system and provide many minerals and vitamins to keep you healthy, something you can not say about bucket food fare.
A number of edible fungi are easy to learn how to identify. Just be sure to know which varieties can cause a horrible death.
Young edible Chicken of the Woods Mushroom
Not to be confused with the similarity colored,
and poisonous, Jack-O-Lantern mushroom.
