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Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family
    #15456180 - 12/02/11 07:47 PM (12 years, 1 month ago)

A friend asked me if I'm aware how dangerous it is to pick and eat wild mushrooms, and cited the following recent incident as a reason I should reconsider.  She really believed that this guy was an experienced mushroom hunter.

As near as I can tell from the article, the guy who wrote The Horse Whisperer picked and ate a toxic Cortinarius on his brothers estate, simply because someone told him that they were chanterelles and porcini.

Noobs (I consider myself among this group) be careful! Consider each mushroom carefully, based on its own characteristics, not the one's that you are hoping are there.  If your mushroom doesn't fit all of the characteristics in the key you are using, consider it for its beauty but don't eat it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1308997/The-deadly-dish-poisoned-lives-How-The-Horse-Whisperers-Nicholas-Evans-killed-family-wild-mushrooms.html


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Re: Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family [Re: suchen]
    #15456379 - 12/02/11 08:36 PM (12 years, 1 month ago)

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The veil must have not yet broken on those Corts, but that is still a pretty grievous error. Even when cutting them up for cooking he should have seen the gills which porcini do not have. :shrug: Poor guy and his family though, that sucks a bunch to make such a mistake :sad:




For sure.  When I showed my wife the article, she said that he must have gone out just "picking mushrooms" for dinner.


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Re: Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family [Re: wintersbefore]
    #15456521 - 12/02/11 09:11 PM (12 years, 1 month ago)

The internet is a wonderful (and terrible) thing, Wintersbefore.

As near as I can tell from a google search, the Daily Mail article is legit. 

What I find fascinating is that my post shows up as number 6 on a search for the horse whisperor author being poisoned by mushrooms. And I posted it only an hour ago. I hope this isn't my 15 minutes of fame.


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