[ajacksified]

Hot takes aside, if you're looking for great foraging books, I'd suggest anything by David Arora, such as "All That the Rain Promises and More" and "Mushrooms Demystified". The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms is, of course, pretty good too.

Outside of identification, "Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares" and "Radical Mycology" are good reads too.

[jerrysievert]

came here to suggest "All That the Rain Promises and More". it's a fantastic book with spore identification as well.

thanks to that book, I've eaten ~10 additional fungi that I would not have eaten before, and they were all quite delicious.

also, thanks to that book, I did spore tests on mushrooms that I was "pretty sure" were correct, and found out that I was wrong.

do your research, and you may find some delicious new meals. don't, and you may find death.

[hilbert42]

"...and you may find death."

Right, see my comment to jbandela1'