On 29/09/13 18:15, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
Tom Gardner wrote:

... for some of the best of the edible fungi, such as blewits:-(

... unless you eat them raw

I didn't know that! I live and learn.

Most references with any culinary pretensions say "do
not eat raw". Certainly the last time I saw them for
sale in Waitrose(!) a couple of decades ago they had
an /extra/ sticky label to that effect.

Michael Jordan in "A Guide to Mushrooms" (one of the
more entertaining references w.r.t. the effects of
poisoning) claims it contains a haemolytic agent, but
you would have to eat a "large quantity" for it to
have any effect, and that it is inactivated on heating.