A Passion for Mushrooms

Antonio Carluccio

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Pavilion
28 August 2025

TV & celebrity chef cookbooks; Quick & easy cooking; Health & wholefood cookery; Cookery by ingredient

“A very beautiful book and ahead of its time.” — Giorgio Locatelli

With a career spanning across 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.

A gastronomic guidebook to the most delicious species of wild mushrooms. This new edition of the 1989 classic cookbook is an ode to Carluccio’s legacy as one of the best-loved Italian chefs, brimming with inventive and decadent Italian recipes to forage, cook and enjoy wild mushrooms.

Carluccio's over 100 recipes include antipasti, starters, mains with fish, meat and game and desserts. Enjoy a sumptuous Ossobuco with Wild Mushrooms; all-rounder classics such as Mushroom Lasagne and Mushroom Ratatouille; and even learn how to preserve your own mushrooms at home. Each recipe features a personal introduction from Carluccio filled with expert notes and charming anecdotes from his life and career.

Take your foraging to the next level with this 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.

By: Antonio Carluccio
Imprint: Pavilion
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 252mm, Width: 195mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 960g
ISBN: 9780008756598
ISBN 10: 0008756597
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 28 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Antonio Carluccio grew up in Northern Italy where the passion for food is rivalled only by the love of good music. After moving to England he ran the famous Neal Street restaurant in London’s Covent Garden, a short walk from the Royal Opera House, where he created a reputation for outstanding cooking in elegant surroundings.

Reviews for A Passion for Mushrooms

""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

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