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Don't listen to old wives' tales! Poisonous mushrooms won't turn a silver coin black; neither will they turn dark when soaked in salt water, or milky when left in vinegar Nibble marks by a field mouse or a tortoise on a mushroom don't mean it's safe to eat. The creature may have crawled away to die, or may not have been affected at all by the fungus. Rabbits can safely eat one variety of mushroom that can kill a man.

Despite the lethal members of the family, mushrooms have always been one of mankind's favorite foods. The ancient Pharaohs though them such noble fungi that they for-bade commoners to eat them. The Romans believed mushrooms gave their warriors strength in battle and passed laws reserving this "food of the gods" for certain classes of citizens. Temping though they may be, however, it doesn't pay to take chances on the wild varieties.

Since early times, man has learned much through trial and error about which things are edible and which are not--but mushrooms keep fooling people. One of the first documented mushroom poisoning fatalities in the United States occurred in New Jersey in 1695. There a gravestone in a churchyard tells of the deaths of two young brothers who were "poyseoned by eating mushrooms for food," according to Vincent Marteka in his book Mushrooms: Wild and Edible.

Just a few years ago, the French chef of a fashionable restaurant in Washington, D.C., went mushroom picking with his family in Rock Creek Park. They gathered basketfuls of what they thought were parasol mushrooms (Lepiota procera), a delectable species that the chef had been familiar with in france. But the mushrooms were poisonous look-alikes, the green-gilled Chlorophyllum molybdites. After cooking and eating them, the whole family became ill and was hospitalized. The chef and his son died.
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