A Passion for Mushrooms

“A Passion for Mushrooms is a very beautiful book and was ahead of its time.” — Giorgio Locatelli

With a career spanning over four decades, Antonio Carluccio OBE, OMRI was one of the best loved Italian chefs, cookery writers and restauranteurs. This book is his ode to foraging, cooking and enjoying wild mushrooms.

First published in 1989, this edition features a foreword by Giorgio Locatelli as well as over 100 recipes including antipasti, starters, mains with fish, meat and game, and desserts. Enjoy Turbot with Honey Fungus, Partridge with Wood Blewits and even Carluccio’s ingenious Bewitched Mushrooms with Sweet Vermouth. Each recipe features a personal introduction from Carluccio filled with charming anecdotes from his life and career.

The second part of this book is a handy field guide to more than 25 species of mushroom, helping you to identify and collect them, as well as to understand the science behind all things funghi. Recognise the edible (and poisonous) varieties and take your foraging to the next level.

A Passion for Mushrooms is a gastronomic exploration and a useful guidebook to the most delicious species of wild mushrooms. An ode to Carluccio’s legacy and passion this book is brimming with inventive, fuss-free recipes from an always warm Italian kitchen.

Reviews

"A beautiful cloth-bound reissue of the Carluccio classic, with foreword by Giorgio Locatelli. Not just a recipe book but with a lot of mushroom knowledge (and love) in it too.” Angela Clutton

About the author

Antonio Carluccio OBE was an Italian chef, restauranteur and food expert based in London. Carluccio had a career spanning more than five decades and is best known for his BBC Two show Two Greedy Italians with fellow Pavilion author Gennaro Contaldo. He was the manager of Terence Conran’s Neal Street Restaurant in London and went on to found the restaurant chain Carluccio’s in 1991 which still exists in over twenty locations across the UK today.