Cooking with Mushrooms: A Fungi Lover's Guide to the World's Most Versatile, Flavorful, Health-Boosting Ingredients

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In her extraordinary first cookbook, Andrea Gentl brings to her subject equal parts knowledge and technique, along with a unique passion and sensibility. From sprinkling adaptogenic powder over granola to reinventing schnitzel with king trumpets, Cooking with Mushrooms expands our ideas of how to use mushrooms as both a food and a flavour, a seasoning and the star of the plate.

Here are a variety of mushroom broths to make you feel better. Breakfast recipes like Soupy Eggs with Chanterelles. Mushroom Larb or a Crispy Shiitake 'Bacon' Endive Wedge Salad makes the perfect lunch. Mushroom Ragu or a Roast Chicken with Miso Mushroom Butter can change the dinner game, and a Maple Mushroom Ice Cream will transform your ideas about dessert.

The dishes might sound familiar lasagna, risotto, a bourguignon, brownies but the ingredients and flavours are as unexpected as they are delicious. In all, Cooking with Mushrooms features nearly 100 recipes that unlock the powerful flavours and health-giving properties of the worlds most magical ingredient.

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In this gorgeous and deeply useful book, Andrea Gentl disproves my own jaded fear that theres nothing new to say about ingredients we know well. Ive cooked mushrooms for years without ever making pesto with maitake, lovage, walnut, and pistachio; morels on fried sourdough with smashed favas and peas; or whole king trumpets served au poivre. I find myself impatient for my next chance to buy a whole bouquet of mushrooms to follow her joyous and charitable directions.
Tamar Adler, author of An Everlasting Meal

This book is a beautiful and modern expression of Andreas love for the natural world, travel, photography, and most important, mushrooms. The recipes are delicious, nutritious, and accessible. I plan to fill my pantry with all these staples and use them as she suggests throughout the book. It has already become one of the most valued cookbooks in my collection.
Aran Goyoaga, author of Cannelle et Vanille

Cooking with Mushrooms is a breathtaking new offering that has everything: beauty, lore, wisdom, and every delicious way to use these magical spores. Andrea Gentls reverence for nature shines through, with in-depth instructions and stunning photography that make this a literal feast from cover to cover. The learning here is rich.
Sarah Copeland, author of Every Day Is Saturday, Feast, and Instant Family Meals

Cooking with Mushrooms will quickly draw you into the mystical kingdom of this most enchanting ingredient. Once there, youll be treated to a plethora of exciting ways to feature mushrooms in your daily mealspowdered and added to honey or nut butter, infused in healing broths, and even in rye sourdough bread and desserts. These recipes are effortlessly beautiful, delicious, and health supportive.
Amy Chaplin, James Beard Awardwinning author of Whole Food Cooking Every Day

Andrea Gentl has a way with food. A way with styling. A way with poetically expressing herself through every word. A way with flavors that is distinctly her own. And now, with her exceptional new book, a way with mushrooms that we will all greatly benefit from.
Athena Calderone, author of Cook Beautiful and Live Beautiful

In these pages, Andrea Gentls writing and cooking chops rival her legendary food photography. A leading alternative doctor once beseeched me to eat mushrooms often for their outsize adaptogenic propertiesthis book is a roadmap for how and why to do so deliciously. Ive rarely seen such a clever, mouthwatering collection of original recipes.
Lucinda Scala Quinn, author of Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys

There are few people equipped with the keen eye, curiosity, and mycophilic knowledge required to produce a book like this, and Andrea Gentl does it like a true master with a foragers heart. Her mushroom-based recipes are so flavorful that well never think of them the same way again. Cooking with Mushrooms is inspiring, informative, and an instant classic.
Elissa Altman, author of Poor Mans Feast and Motherland

Andrea gives us truly inventive ways to not only cook fresh mushrooms but to coax out and preserve their best qualities so that their funky essence can easily be added to a myriad of dishes. This gorgeous book is a must for curious cooks everywhere.
Susan Spungen, author of Open Kitchen

Magical in every sense of the word. Through a brilliant narrative and recipes that are both inspiring and truly nourishing, this is a thorough explanation of all things mushrooms.
Mariana Velsquez, author of Colombiana

While her evocative images reveal an obvious love of her subject, Andreas recipes are a testament to a lifetime of curiosity, travel, observation, and experimentation. This book will give you the confidence to unlock the power of fungi and open your kitchen to an umami that, for many, has been hiding in plain sight.
Cliodhna Prendergast, food writer and photographer
In this gorgeous and deeply useful book, Andrea Gentl disproves my own jaded fear that theres nothing new to say about ingredients we know well. Ive cooked mushrooms for years without ever making pesto with maitake, lovage, walnut, and pistachio; morels on fried sourdough with smashed favas and peas; or whole king trumpets served au poivre. I find myself impatient for my next chance to buy a whole bouquet of mushrooms to follow her joyous and charitable directions.
Tamar Adler, author of An Everlasting Meal

This book is a beautiful and modern expression of Andreas love for the natural world, travel, photography, and most important, mushrooms. The recipes are delicious, nutritious, and accessible. I plan to fill my pantry with all these staples and use them as she suggests throughout the book. It has already become one of the most valued cookbooks in my collection.
Aran Goyoaga, author of Cannelle et Vanille

Cooking with Mushrooms is a breathtaking new offering that has everything: beauty, lore, wisdom, and every delicious way to use these magical spores. Andrea Gentls reverence for nature shines through, with in-depth instructions and stunning photography that make this a literal feast from cover to cover. The learning here is rich.
Sarah Copeland, author of Every Day Is Saturday, Feast, and Instant Family Meals

Cooking with Mushrooms will quickly draw you into the mystical kingdom of this most enchanting ingredient. Once there, youll be treated to a plethora of exciting ways to feature mushrooms in your daily mealspowdered and added to honey or nut butter, infused in healing broths, and even in rye sourdough bread and desserts. These recipes are effortlessly beautiful, delicious, and health supportive.
Amy Chaplin, James Beard Awardwinning author of Whole Food Cooking Every Day

Andrea Gentl has a way with food. A way with styling. A way with poetically expressing herself through every word. A way with flavors that is distinctly her own. And now, with her exceptional new book, a way with mushrooms that we will all greatly benefit from.
Athena Calderone, author of Cook Beautiful and Live Beautiful

In these pages, Andrea Gentls writing and cooking chops rival her legendary food photography. A leading alternative doctor once beseeched me to eat mushrooms often for their outsize adaptogenic propertiesthis book is a roadmap for how and why to do so deliciously. Ive rarely seen such a clever, mouthwatering collection of original recipes.
Lucinda Scala Quinn, author of Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys

There are few people equipped with the keen eye, curiosity, and mycophilic knowledge required to produce a book like this, and Andrea Gentl does it like a true master with a foragers heart. Her mushroom-based recipes are so flavorful that well never think of them the same way again. Cooking with Mushrooms is inspiring, informative, and an instant classic.
Elissa Altman, author of Poor Mans Feast and Motherland

Andrea gives us truly inventive ways to not only cook fresh mushrooms but to coax out and preserve their best qualities so that their funky essence can easily be added to a myriad of dishes. This gorgeous book is a must for curious cooks everywhere.
Susan Spungen, author of Open Kitchen

Magical in every sense of the word. Through a brilliant narrative and recipes that are both inspiring and truly nourishing, this is a thorough explanation of all things mushrooms.
Mariana Velsquez, author of Colombiana

Not only is Andrea Gentl an absolutely amazing photographershe is an intuitive and soulful cook. As a fellow mushroom lover, I thought I knew what a person could do with them, but the wealth of recipes and ideas in this book floored me. There are pestos, nut butters, broths and tonics, crostatas, granolas, tacos, and more. A fungus lovers delight! I could go on, but I have to go make a batch of Miso Mushroom Popcorn Dust. Buy this book!
Carla Lalli Music, author of That Sounds So Good and Where Cooking Begins

While her evocative images reveal an obvious love of her subject, Andreas recipes are a testament to a lifetime of curiosity, travel, observation, and experimentation. This book will give you the confidence to unlock the power of fungi and open your kitchen to an umami that, for many, has been hiding in plain sight.
Cliodhna Prendergast, food writer and photographer
"Abook so beautiful, merely leafing through it confers forest-bathing levels of equanimity."
The Wall Street Journal
Andrea GentlsCooking with Mushroomsis a book thats as beautiful as it is wildly creative. Mushroom and cauliflower carnitas, king trumpet au poivre, brown sugar buttermilk porcini pumpkin pie, oh my, I want them all. Its a healthyish, hippieish cookbook that gives the funkadelic mushroom the respect it deserves. . . . A resource in my kitchen.
Bon Apptit, Best Cookbooks of 2022

"[Gentl's] book displays a dedication to treating mushrooms with respect and a knack for getting the absolute most out of them by paying careful attention to technique...Her one-page explanation of five mushroom-cooking techniques is one of the best, most succinct Ive seen."
Joe Yonan,The Washington Post

"Within the very first pages, it is clear [Cooking with Mushrooms] is as complex as myceliaand just as enticing."
Vogue.com

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Author Bio

Andrea Gentl is an award-winning food and travel photographer. Over the span of her 30-year career, she has photographed the worlds leading chefs and culinary pioneers. Best known for her signature light and detailed compositions, Gentl tells a distinct story, entirely her own, through her images. It is from that perspective, as well as through extensive global travel, that she writes, cooks, and creates. Gentl works in collaboration with her husband and partner, Martin Hyers. This is her first cookbook.