Are you skeptical about your ability to identify a delicious mushroom from a deadly one? Do you want to learn how to find, process, and prepare wild mushrooms for food and medicine?

Each species is identified with a detailed color picture, distinct features, as well as information on habitat, fruiting timing, edibility, creative uses, and dangerous look-alikes. “Fry, Thrive, or Die” is a pocket-sized field guide to the most prominent and distinctive wild mushrooms in the Western United States, from the Pacific Coast to the Rocky Mountains, and prepares readers to hunt wild mushrooms and to serve them up.

This book will delight the reader with stories, history, possibilities, recipes and much, much, more. “Fry, Thrive, or Die” puts the “fun” in fungi.

Dr. Mike Amaranthus, author of “Fry, Thrive or Die” is a retired mycologist and research scientist and long time Southern Oregon resident.